

tag – Requires a title (for blog entries) and the tags that you would like to use with the post in question.post – Allows you to post content (which is then known as blog).get – Downloads the specified document in the format specified using the format option.īlogger – Manage content stored using the blogger service.upload – Uploads the specified document (options include title, folder and format of the document being uploaded).delete – Delete a document on Google Docs.edit – Allows you to indicate an application to use as an editor for the given document (ie – vi).A list of services with their verbs includes the following.ĭocs – Allows for interaction with Google Docs, with verbs that include the following:

Verbs are based on services (not all services offer the same features and therefore do not have the same verbs). Simply use the newly acquired google command (this is actually a Python front-end to the API at /usr/bin/google) followed by a service and then a verb. Once GoogleCL has been installed, the use is the same between Mac OS X and Linux. Then hop into the newly extracted directory and run the python installer:
#Picasa for mac os x lion code
Next up, let’s grab GoogleCL from the GoogleCL Google Code page:
#Picasa for mac os x lion install
Next, install it using Python (2.0.13 is the latest version) with your working directory set to the previously extracted folder: First, download the gdata-python-client from and then extract the file (ie – unzip gdata-2.0.13). Once downloaded, install it using dpkg with the -i option (assuming you’re still using the same working directory: Once installed, you’ll want to then download the deb package from Google Code: If you’re using Ubuntu, you would do an apt-get and install python-gdata: To use GoogleCL you’re going to need python-gdata. GoogleCL is a command line version of Google Apps that will allow you to interact with YouTube, Picasa, Blogger and of course Google Docs. Therefore, there are a couple of tools that ease the learning curve a bit. The API is available for python and java and can take some time to get used to, even though Google has done a good job with making it pretty straight forward (comparably).

There are a number of ways that you can interact with Google Apps: there is the website, the new Google Cloud Connect and an API that allows you to integrate Google Apps with your own solutions.
