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Google Workspace CLI
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Re: Google Workspace CLI
#232> This is not an officially supported Google product.
Damn, so it won’t have the legendary Google promise of reliability and maintenance.
Re: Google Workspace CLI
#233God, getting this set up is frustrating. I've spent 45 minutes trying to get this to work, just following their defaults the whole way through. Multiple errors and issues along the way, now I'm on `gws auth login`, and trying to pick the oAuth scopes. I go ahead and trust their defaults and select `recommended`, only to get a warning that this is too many scopes and may error out (then why is this the recommended set…
I’ve been really unhappy with pretty much every Google product I’ve used except their consumer productivity tools — Gmail, Calendar, and Meet. Diving into Google Cloud has been extremely unsatisfactory
Same. I was using Gemini and firebase for a work project and I was stunned how hard it was for me to use
Re: Google Workspace CLI
#234I was excited to see this but all of that went away when I realized you need to create an app in GCP to use it. Can't really expect non technical users to set this up across the company.
Same story here, I installed it and ran `gwc auth setup` only to find I needed to install a `gloud` CLI by hand. That led me to this link with install instructions: https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/install. Unmistakeable Google DX strikes again.
Re: Google Workspace CLI
#235Re: Google Workspace CLI
#236Related, I often work with markdown docs (usually created via CLI agents like Claude Code) and need to collaborate with others in google docs, which is extremely markdown-unfriendly[1], so I built small quality-of-life CLI tools to convert Gdocs -> md and vice versa, called gdoc2md and md2gdoc:
https://pchalasani.github.io/claude-code-tools/integrations/...
They handle embedded images in both directions. There are similar gsheet2csv and csv2gsheet tools in the same repo.
Similar to the posted tool, there is a first time set up involving creating an app, that is documented above.
[1] in the sense there are multiple annoying clicks/steps to get a markdown doc to look good in Gdocs. You'd know the pain if you've tried it.
Re: Google Workspace CLI
#237> This is not an officially supported Google product.
Common for them. Even for projects on the main google GH org more often than not there'll be stuff like "not an official Google product" and "it is just code that happens to be owned by Google" in the README.
Re: Google Workspace CLI
#238It's funny because all these cloud services are suddenly motivated to have truly useful CLIs.
Re: Google Workspace CLI
#239Related, I often work with markdown docs (usually created via CLI agents like Claude Code) and need to collaborate with others in google docs, which is extremely markdown-unfriendly[1], so I built small quality-of-life CLI tools to convert Gdocs -> md and vice versa, called gdoc2md and md2gdoc: https://pchalasani.github.io/claude-code-tools/integrations/... They handle embedded images in both directions. There are si…
Paste from markdown (Chrome only) works _really_ well for me. What are the extra steps you’re running into?
Re: Google Workspace CLI
#240Interesting post from the main contributor about this (at least I assume it’s what he’s referencing) https://justin.poehnelt.com/posts/rewrite-your-cli-for-ai-ag...
No, we won’t be in fact doing that. Machine parsable, readable for other tools - yes.