GDataCopier is an active project, the following is our road map, it outlines new features and bug fixes for upcoming releases.

Current features on board for development and release as*v3.0

• Python 2.7 compatibility
• Complete rewrite of command line scripts
• Doxygen generated documentation of API
• Any document policy support for backup
• File based configuration of scripts
• Address various reported content encoding issues, unicode characters and other non latin scripts
• GID based export
• OAuth based authentication, so users don't have to provide usernames and passwords via command line or configuration files

Releases

v2.1.2

Released: 18th August 2010

Second Service release for 2.1

• Fixes download PDF as PDF issue
• Fixes file name encoding issues for non ascii character sets
• Allows long TLDs as remote server name .info etc
• Tested against GData 2.0.11 and Python 2.5

v2.1.1

Released: 3rd April 2010

Service release for v2.1

• Fixes minor typos
• Drops file extensions for imported document names
• Download PDF as PDF resolved
• Traceback error message trapped on failures
• Silent mode stops printing license and copyright

Credits:

• mjbauer95 for the patches and ideas submitted

v2.1

Released: 31st January 2010

New Features

• Introduce gmkdir to make directories on Google servers
• Introduce gmv to move documents from one folder to another on Google servers
• Introduce grm to remove documents and folders
• Allow user to change verbosity
• Fail gracefully on Captcha login requests
• Read passwords from a file
• Updated previously uploaded documents

Credits

• remi for submitting the patch to read passwords from a file
• Update contents of existing documents on Google servers, feature development sponsored by Patrick Hochstenbach of Universiteitsbiliotheek Gent

v2.0.2

Released: 1st November 2009

Currently available by checking out code in Subversion.

New Features

• Adds -c command line parameter, that creates a sub-directory per document owner for better organisation of backed up documents
• Adds -i to append the document id of the user to the filename, the id is base64 hashed
• Fixes issue with detecting updating documents (critical)

Bug fixes

• Defaults to PPT for presentations, ODF doesn't seem to be supported

Credits

• gdazero for the document id append idea
• eszpee for suggesting the verbosity level idea
• Radu Negrean of Unique Logo Design for contributing the logo