NAME

goobook - access your Google contacts from mutt or the command line

SYNOPSIS

goobook [ options ] COMMAND

DESCRIPTION

goobook 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

authenticate: Allow goobook to access your Google contacts using OAuth2.
add [NAME] [EMAIL] [PHONE]: Add a new Google contact. If NAME and EMAIL is not specified, read an email address from stdin and add the From: address to your Google contacts.
config-template: Display a config template of that can be written to ~/.config/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_STRING is a Python flavoured regexp where all ' ' is replaced with .*.
query [-s|--simple] QUERY_STRING: Search contacts for QUERY_STRING, mutt compatible plain text output. --simple output format was requested for use with notmuchmail. QUERY_STRING is a Python flavoured regexp where all ' ' is replaced with .*.
reload: Reload contacts from Google and update cache.

CONFIGURATION

For most users it will be enough to run:


goobook authenticate --help


and follow the instructions

To have access to more advanced options, you can generate a config file by doing:


goobook config-template > ~/.config/goobookrc

An example config can look like this:

[DEFAULT]
cache_expiry_hours: 24

AUTHOR

This manual page has been written by Dariusz Dwornikowski and Christer Sjöholm

2020-09-02