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Interact with Google Apps at the Command Line

June 18th, 2010

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Having a ball playing around with the just-released GoogleCL tool, which offers command line access to Google Calendar, contacts, Docs, Picasa, Blogger, and YouTube. With Python-based GoogleCL installed, you can do things such as list today's events on your GCal right in the terminal, like so:

$ google calendar today title
Coffee with Michael and Samir
Dozing off
Lunch at Flingers

Instant use case: Add echo "Next 24 hours:";google calendar today title to your ~/.bash_profile file to see what you've got scheduled for the day when you launch a new Terminal window. Some more GoogleCL fun inside.

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How to Back Up Your Full-Size Flickr Images by Set

August 5th, 2009

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If you email photos to Flickr directly from your phone like I do, you probably don't always have a copy of the images you've published online on your computer. There are a few applications that back up your Flickr photos, but right now I'm digging Dan Benjamin's (admittedly geeky) Python script, FlickrTouchr.

FlickrTouchr doesn't support video uploads or grab any metadata about your photos (like tags, comments, favorites, etc). But it does arrange your backups by set name. In one command, you authorize FlickrTouchr to access our Flickr account, and it gets busy downloading your files. You'll need Python to run this and a folder to save your images. (Python comes in OS X, install it on Windows from here.) Here's what FlickrTouchr looks like in action.

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