goobook(1)goobookgoobook(1)NAMEgoobook - access your Google contacts from mutt or the command line
SYNOPSISgoobook [options] COMMAND
DESCRIPTIONgoobook can be used to access your Google contacts from the command
line. It can also be easily integrated into MUAs such as mutt. It can
be used from mutt the same way as abook.
OPTIONS-h, --help
show the help message and exit
-c FILE, --config FILE
specify alternative configuration file
-v, --verbose
be verbose about what is going on (stderr)
-V, --version
print version and exit
-d, --debug
output debug information to stderr
COMMAND
add read an email address from stdin and add the From: address to
your Google contacts
config-template
create a config template of ~/.goobookrc
dump_contacts
dump all your contacts to XML (stdout)
dump_groups
dump your contact groups to XML (stdout)
dquery QUERY_STRING
search contacts for QUERY_STRING, nice vcard like output
query QUERY_STRING
search contacts for QUERY_STRING, plain text output
reload reload contacts from Google and update cache
CONFIGURATION
Basic configuration can be done in ~/.netrc
machine google.com
login your_login@gmail.com
password your_password
To have access to more advanced options, you can generate .goobookrc
config file by doing:
goobook config-template > ~/.goobookrc
An example config can look like this:
[DEFAULT]
email: your_login@gmail.com
password: your_password
cache_filename: ~/.goobook_cache
cache_expiry_hours: 24
If you do not give email and password, they will be read from .netrc.
You can set password to prompt, in this case goobook will ask for your
password on every request. Instead of giving password in plain text,
you can use passwordeval option to set a command for extracting pass‐
word from a secure location. You can use gpg for this:
gpg --batch -d ~/encrypted_password_file.gpg
SEE ALSO
Website: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/goobook/
AUTHOR
This manual page has been written by Dariusz Dwornikowski <dar‐
iusz.dwornikowski@cs.put.poznan.pl>
April 12, 2014 goobook(1)