Comments on: Interact with Google Apps at the Command Line

By: Sufian Siddiqi

Sufian Siddiqi — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:49:07 +0000

I’ve got multiple calendars on my account so I use the following to retrieve all events for the day via terminal:

echo “Next 24hrs: “;google calendar today when,title –delimiter ” | ” –cal “.*”

By: Jon White

Jon White — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 02:51:15 +0000

want to add my todo.txt file to google docs but when I upload it creates a new file each time. How can I overwrite it?

By: tuckerbrennan

tuckerbrennan — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 05:25:48 +0000

Wow. Downloading my Picasa albums from a command line was a borderline religious experience.

By: google.com/profiles/ca…

google.com/profiles/ca… — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 02:40:06 +0000

Does anyone know if there is a way to display subscribed calendars (non-editable) in Google CL?

By: Barron Bichon

Barron Bichon — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:42:30 +0000

I’m no BASH expert, but here’s what I threw together to show the start times of events for the next week in an alternate date format:

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!/bin/bash

BEG=$(date "+%Y-%m-%d")
END=$(date -v+7d "+%Y-%m-%d")

google calendar list -d $BEG,$END when,title > gcal.tmp

while read line
do
G_DATE=${line:0:12}
MY_DATE=$(date -j -f "%b %d %H:%M" "$G_DATE" "+%A %l:%M %p")
echo $MY_DATE "-" ${line:28}
done < gcal.tmp

\rm -rf gcal.tmp

By: rashwell

rashwell — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 16:37:37 +0000

Why not create the cloud version of todo.txt by having it automatically store is data in a google docs spreadsheet?

By: Gina Trapani

Gina Trapani — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 17:38:16 +0000

@Chad: the Dropbox component is a great idea.

@Ramon: I didn’t know about when, or the delimiter!

My new favorite calendar command:

1	$ google calendar today when,title --delimiter " \| "

By: Chad Stephen Albert

Chad Stephen Albert — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 12:02:23 +0000

I made up a shell script that dumps today’s calendar events to a text file that gets displayed in Conky on my desktop. Nice clean list of the days events above a todo.txt list. The text file is in Dropbox, so it’s across several locations for use on other machines.

#!/bin/bash
google calendar today title >today.txt

use a simple cron job to update the today file every however often, and you’re good to go….

By: Ramón

Ramón — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 05:01:27 +0000

Wow, this is pretty awesome! I wrote this script and added a launcher to my panel in Ubuntu to execute it. It displays my calendar events for the next 24 hours in a OSD notification.

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#!/bin/bash
#
#events from Google calendar in the next 24 hours in an OSD notification

google calendar today title,when --delimiter=", " > /tmp/24hrs.txt

current_time=`date +%r`
msg="The current time is $current_time"

while read event;
do

msg="$msg
------------------
$event"

done < /tmp/24hrs.txt

notify-send "Events in next 24 hours" "$msg"
rm /tmp/24hrs.txt
exit 0

Too bad ‘today’ does not actually return today’s events. Also the ‘–date’ option seems a little buggy.