📮 gog — Google in your terminal

Minimal Google CLI in Go for:

• Gmail
• Calendar
• Drive
• Contacts (People API)
• People (profile / people/me)

Install / Build

Install via Homebrew (tap):

• brew install steipete/tap/gogcli

Build locally:

• make

Run:

• ./bin/gog --help

Setup (OAuth)

Before adding an account you need OAuth2 credentials from Google Cloud Console:

1. Create a project (or select an existing one): https://console.cloud.google.com/projectcreate
2. Enable the APIs you need:
   • Gmail API: https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/api/gmail.googleapis.com
   • Google Calendar API: https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/api/calendar-json.googleapis.com
   • Google Drive API: https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/api/drive.googleapis.com
   • People API (Contacts): https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/api/people.googleapis.com
3. Set app name / branding (OAuth consent screen): https://console.cloud.google.com/auth/branding
4. If your app is in “Testing”, add test users (all Google accounts you’ll use with gog): https://console.cloud.google.com/auth/audience
5. Create an OAuth client: https://console.cloud.google.com/auth/clients
   • Click “Create Client”
   • Application type: “Desktop app”
   • Download the JSON file (usually named like client_secret_....apps.googleusercontent.com.json)

Then:

• Store the downloaded client JSON (no renaming required):
  • gog auth credentials ~/Downloads/client_secret_....json
• Authorize your account (refresh token stored in OS keychain via github.com/99designs/keyring):
  • gog auth add you@gmail.com

Notes:

• If no OS keychain backend is available (e.g. Linux/WSL/container), keyring can fall back to an encrypted on-disk store and may prompt for a password; for non-interactive runs set GOG_KEYRING_PASSWORD.
• Default is --services all (gmail, calendar, drive, contacts).
• To request fewer scopes: gog auth add you@gmail.com --services drive,calendar.
• If you add services later and Google doesn’t return a refresh token, re-run with --force-consent.
• gog auth add ... overwrites the stored token for that email.

Accounts

Most API commands require an account selection:

• --account you@gmail.com
• or set GOG_ACCOUNT=you@gmail.com to avoid repeating the flag.

List configured accounts:

• gog auth list

Output (Parseable)

• --output=text (default): plain text on stdout (lists are tab-separated).
• --output=json: JSON on stdout (best for scripting).
• Human-facing hints/progress go to stderr.
• Colors are enabled only in rich TTY output and are disabled automatically for JSON.

Useful pattern:

• gog --output=json ... | jq .

If you use pnpm, see the shortcut section for pnpm -s (silent) to keep stdout clean.

Examples

Drive:

• gog drive ls --max 20
• gog drive search "invoice" --max 20
• gog drive get <fileId>
• gog drive download <fileId>
• gog drive upload ./path/to/file --folder <folderId>

Calendar:

• gog calendar calendars
• gog calendar events <calendarId> --from 2025-12-08T00:00:00+01:00 --to 2025-12-15T00:00:00+01:00 --max 250
• gog calendar event <calendarId> <eventId>
• gog calendar respond <calendarId> <eventId> --status accepted

Gmail:

• gog gmail search 'newer_than:7d' --max 10
• gog gmail thread <threadId>
• gog gmail get <messageId> --format metadata
• gog gmail attachment <messageId> <attachmentId> --out ./attachment.bin
• gog gmail labels list
• gog gmail labels get INBOX --output=json (includes counts)
• gog gmail send --to a@b.com --subject "Hi" --body "Plain fallback" --body-html "<p>Hello</p>"

Contacts:

• gog contacts list --max 50
• gog contacts search "Ada" --max 50
• gog contacts get people/...
• gog contacts other list --max 50

Workspace directory (requires Google Workspace account; @gmail.com won’t work):

• gog contacts directory list --max 50
• gog contacts directory search "Jane" --max 50

People:

• gog people me

Environment

• GOG_ACCOUNT=you@gmail.com (used if --account is omitted)
• GOG_COLOR=auto|always|never (default auto)
• GOG_OUTPUT=text|json (default text)

Development

Pinned tools (installed into .tools/):

• Format: make fmt (goimports + gofumpt)
• Lint: make lint (golangci-lint)
• Test: make test

CI runs format checks, tests, and lint on push/PR.

pnpm gog shortcut

Build + run in one step:

• pnpm gog auth add you@gmail.com

For clean stdout when scripting:

• pnpm -s gog --output=json gmail search "from:me" | jq .

Credits

This project is inspired by Mario Zechner’s original CLIs:

• gmcli
• gccli
• gdcli