All usage examples are written using the short options, gdoc-cp supports a set of long options (if you prefer that).

You must always provide a username (-u) and password (-p). If you don't the command line utility will ask you to provide this via standard in.

If you are exporting or import documents you will require to provide a Google document id (-g) and or instruct the program to download or upload sets of documents. You will also require to provide a local path or file name (-f).

While exporting document you need to specify a valid export format (-e pdf). Import automatically detects the content type of the file.

List documents

List all documents for a user

./gdoc-cp.py -u someone@gmail.com -p password -l

List only documents for a user

./gdoc-cp.py -u someone@gmail.com -p password -d

List only spreadsheets for a user

./gdoc-cp.py -u someone@gmail.com -p password -s

Export documents and spreadsheets to local disk

Download a single document to disk

./gdoc-cp.py -u someone@gmail.com -p password -g documentid -f files/google

Download all spreadsheets to disk

./gdoc-cp.py -u someone@gmail.com -p password -g spreadsheets -f files/google

Download all documents to disk

./gdoc-cp.py -u someone@gmail.com -p password -g documents -f files/google

Download every document to disk (default, exports in OASIS formats)

./gdoc-cp.py -u someone@gmail.com -p password -e default -g all -f files/google
./gdoc-cp.py -u someone@gmail.com -p password -e pdf -g all -f files/google

Importing documents to Google Docs

To create a new Google document called "New Document" from an OpenOffice file called sample.odt

./gdoc-cp.py -u someone@gmail.com -p password -i -f files/sample.odt -t "New Document"

Document & spreadsheet metadata export

While exporting documents you can also export extra information that Google makes available via the Atom feeds by using the -m option

./gdoc-cp.py -u someone@gmail.com -p password -e default -g all -f files/google -m
./gdoc-cp.py -u someone@gmail.com -p password -e pdf -g all -f files/google -m