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    read an email address from stdin and add the From: address to your Google contacts

       config-template
              create a config template of ~/.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 QUERY_STRING
              search contacts for QUERY_STRING, plain text output

       reload reload contacts from Google and update cache

CONFIGURATION

       For most users it will be enough to run:

           goobook authenticate

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

           goobook config-template > ~/.goobookrc

       An example config can look like this:

           [DEFAULT]
           oauth_db_filename: ~/.goobook_auth.json
           cache_filename: ~/.goobook_cache
           cache_expiry_hours: 24

SEE ALSO

       Website: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/goobook/

AUTHOR

       This     manual     page     has     been     written     by     Dariusz      Dwornikowski
       <dariusz.dwornikowski@cs.put.poznan.pl>

                                           June 3, 2015                                goobook(1)