Google Workspace CLI

Honestly, easier with MCP straight up: https://gmail.mintmcp.com/ https://gcal.mintmcp.com/ https://gdocs.mintmcp.com/ https://gsheets.mintmcp.com/

(all pass through)

Would it help to backup all my mailboxes and be ready to ditch gmail?

Seems to be built by using Claud code?

I'm surprised that this didn't officially exist before.

Would be useful if it can atleast show google drive storage in folder structure

> quick setup

> requires setting up gcloud cli first, necessitates making a Google Cloud project

cmon google how come even your attempts at good ux start out with bad ux? let me just oauth with my regular google account like every other cli tool out there. gh cli, claude, codex - all are a simple “click ok” in the browser to log in. wtf.

and the slow setup - i need to make my own oauth app & keys??

EDIT: oh yeah and get my oath app verified all so i can use it with my own account

Haha in the world of AI/MCPs, all of a sudden we have a push for companies to properly build out APIs/CLI tools.

For all people have to say about Pete the openclaw guy he's been perhaps one of the most vocal voices about CLIs > MCPs (or maybe his is just the loudest?) and he also built a GSuite CLI that probably inspired this project.

I mean it's great that we get this, hopefully it can continue to be maintained and I'd love to see a push for similar stuff for other products and at other companies.

My agents will follow this repo with great interest

wow this will gel very well with my current project. Main hurdle i was facing was connecting with individual services via google oauth to get the data.

Is Google Workspace some separate thing from well, normal Google?

I mean I have personal gmail,drive, keep, etc. Will it work there?

750 mb and enough iops to make a small vm instance explode at launch. I wish google would use their own tools like golang to produce 50mb installs.

Good for AI agents.

Hoping Apple will do the same with iCloud.

This is a very interesting way of building agent skills. Seems like the imperative way of orchestration/automation is making a comeback.

`npm install ...`

I wonder why they didn't do this on Python or Ruby, them being the superior languages where `==` works, blah, blah ...

This is effectively why people want agents, right? To be able to bypass all the stuff companies "optimize", ie. the ad-filled websites. The inserted extra conversations that now literally get triggered BECAUSE you're chatting to someone else. The ...

In other words: this is the FANGs worst enemy. This is adblock * 1000, as far as consumers are concerned.

For the love of god, please google, give us personal access tokens and not this Oauth madness inside GCP. It is impossible to get that in any big enterprise.

Google will wait for businesses to become very coupled to this and then kill off the CLI just because.

What's the over/under on this being killed by Google within the next year?

AI Agents are becoming first-class citizens for SaaS

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Nice, now I can use this alongside claude to auto document my research work.

Also, what I find fascinating is that the repo was initialized 3 days ago so it seems it's still a work in progress.

the most annoying thing with Google Workspace is that you need super admin privilege to properly audit the environment programmatically, I believe because of the cloud-identity api.

Very uninteresting post. Why is this the number one post on Hacker News ? Honestly, absolutely disgusting and you can be ashamed, or ashamed for them.

written in Rust lol

Yet another way Google might decide you’ve violated their ToS and cut you off from your entire digital life without warning or recourse.

Sounds handy. But use at your own risk.

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I've built a few internal tools using the Workspace APIs, and while they are powerful, the rate limits on the Drive API can be brutal if you are doing bulk operations. Does this repository handle automatic backoff and retries, or do we need to wrap it ourselves?

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