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Google Introduces Command-Line Tool For Linux
Lomegor writes "'Ever wanted to upload a folder full of photos to Picasa from a command prompt?' Google introduced today a new project, Google CL, that lets you do that and much more. It's a new command line tool for Linux that acts as an interface with Google services; you can upload videos to YouTube or maybe post a new blog post in Blogger in just one line."
I think this is an interesting juxtaposition. I lessly the fonder of Google services because too often it seems things are centralised with the various Google Services. What I liked about Linux was it's decentralisation, that control was distributed to whomever had the capacity and the will to partake.
I don't suggest it's worthless that I can give content to Google from the command line, but that it seems to ideologically oppose one of the strengths of Linux. And artistic content is one area that is suffering from centralisation. Artistic content builds upon what came before it (I mention that because we're not all Lessig-educated), and copyright is increasingly centralising content to a small number of firms. Giving your content to Google isn't like giving your content to Disney, but it's submitting it to the control of a lessly interested party.
Too bad it doesn't support Google Search.
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
sudo $(googlecl imfeelinglucky malicious commands)
There's already a "google" command line command bundled with surfraw. You can type google searchstring and it will launch a browser with the results. I use w3m as the browser, which makes it easy to pipe the results into a script if I need to.
I'm unclear as to how a defunct and destroyed cut-rate '70's era NASA space station that was built out of Atlas rocket parts would have either a web server or the ability to annihilate humanity.
Well, it did rain debris all over Australia. So it's really just a question of accuracy.
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
And that's why we need a GUI for these things!
If you're not familiar with google's api it's a pretty large time investment. Partially because of the size, but also because they're often not the most up to date. A lot of the doc api for example doesn't work with docs created under the system that's been up for a few months now. But that fact isn't listed anywhere in their documentation, or even very easy to find by searching because the error message is so generic and uninformative.
Everything will be taken away from you.
It wants me to log in. It tells me
The site anonymous is requesting access to your Google Account for the product(s) listed below.
What is the security implication to granting access to "site anonymous?"
Somehow it seems right to post this as AC. ;)
... it'd be equally cool if they had a really open API and you could just use a script with curl to upload.
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
Don't see anything for Voice in there, but thankfully there's already http://code.google.com/p/pygooglevoice/
I don't get your point, you should develop a little further.
The Python installer for windows is rather painless, launch setup.exe and it's done.
Plus though the cmd.exe console is rather minimalistic a few Python scripts would offer you a minimum of the command line expressiveness.
At my workplace we are stuck by microsoft lock-in, I bless the possibility I've had to develop a bunch of Python scripts over the years for to ease the burden of having to work in a windows environment.
Such tools existed for years, thanks to Google's open API. I wrote one of the first example scripts and the idea was then used in many other tools:
http://wanted.eu.org/en/computers/linux/uploading_photos_to_picasaweb
I personally like this one best:
http://code.google.com/p/upload2picasa/