Install GoogleCL on Windows

Submitted by drink on Sun, 2010-06-20 10:01

GoogleCL is a python-based command-line utility for accessing Google. It uses gdata-python-client for the google interface. No Windows release is planned, but this is largely irrelevant because python runs fine on Windows, and so do gdata-python-client and GoogleCL. Here are simple instructions for installing GoogleCL under Windows.

  1. Download and install ActivePython.
  2. Download the latest gdata-python-client.
  3. Download the latest GoogleCL.
  4. Unpack the archives you downloaded to produce directories. I used 7-Zip.
  5. In each resulting directory, starting with the gdata-python-client library, run the following command:
    python setup.py install
    googlecl will be installed to c:\python26\scripts\googlecl. Copy or link this file (the latter is a better solution) to "googlecl.py" in the same directory so Windows knows what to do with it, at least once you mangle PATHEXT (isn't Windows fun?) You can change PATHEXT in your global environment variables so that you can just type "googlecl" after the copy/link.

Afterwards, googlecl works as it should, or at least it did in my very limited testing.