gog

Use gog for Gmail/Calendar/Drive/Contacts/Sheets/Docs. Requires OAuth setup.

Setup (once)

• gog auth credentials /path/to/client_secret.json

• gog auth add you@gmail.com --services gmail,calendar,drive,contacts,docs,sheets

• gog auth list

Common commands

• Gmail search: gog gmail search 'newer_than:7d' --max 10

• Gmail messages search (per email, ignores threading): gog gmail messages search "in:inbox from:ryanair.com" --max 20 --account you@example.com

• Gmail send (plain): gog gmail send --to a@b.com --subject "Hi" --body "Hello"

• Gmail send (multi-line): gog gmail send --to a@b.com --subject "Hi" --body-file ./message.txt

• Gmail send (stdin): gog gmail send --to a@b.com --subject "Hi" --body-file -

• Gmail send (HTML): gog gmail send --to a@b.com --subject "Hi" --body-html "<p>Hello</p>"

• Gmail draft: gog gmail drafts create --to a@b.com --subject "Hi" --body-file ./message.txt

• Gmail send draft: gog gmail drafts send <draftId>

• Gmail reply: gog gmail send --to a@b.com --subject "Re: Hi" --body "Reply" --reply-to-message-id <msgId>

• Calendar list events: gog calendar events <calendarId> --from <iso> --to <iso>

• Calendar create event: gog calendar create <calendarId> --summary "Title" --from <iso> --to <iso>

• Calendar create with color: gog calendar create <calendarId> --summary "Title" --from <iso> --to <iso> --event-color 7

• Calendar update event: gog calendar update <calendarId> <eventId> --summary "New Title" --event-color 4

• Calendar show colors: gog calendar colors

• Drive search: gog drive search "query" --max 10

• Contacts: gog contacts list --max 20

• Sheets get: gog sheets get <sheetId> "Tab!A1:D10" --json

• Sheets update: gog sheets update <sheetId> "Tab!A1:B2" --values-json '[["A","B"],["1","2"]]' --input USER_ENTERED

• Sheets append: gog sheets append <sheetId> "Tab!A:C" --values-json '[["x","y","z"]]' --insert INSERT_ROWS

• Sheets clear: gog sheets clear <sheetId> "Tab!A2:Z"

• Sheets metadata: gog sheets metadata <sheetId> --json

• Docs export: gog docs export <docId> --format txt --out /tmp/doc.txt

• Docs cat: gog docs cat <docId>

Calendar Colors

• Use gog calendar colors to see all available event colors (IDs 1-11)

• Add colors to events with --event-color <id> flag

• Event color IDs (from gog calendar colors output):

• 1: #a4bdfc

• 2: #7ae7bf

• 3: #dbadff

• 4: #ff887c

• 5: #fbd75b

• 6: #ffb878

• 7: #46d6db

• 8: #e1e1e1

• 9: #5484ed

• 10: #51b749

• 11: #dc2127

Email Formatting

Prefer plain text. Use --body-file for multi-paragraph messages (or --body-file - for stdin).

Same --body-file pattern works for drafts and replies.

--body does not unescape \n . If you need inline newlines, use a heredoc or $'Line 1\n\nLine 2' .

Use --body-html only when you need rich formatting.

HTML tags: <p> for paragraphs, <br> for line breaks, <strong> for bold, <em> for italic, <a href="url"> for links, <ul> /<li> for lists.

Example (plain text via stdin):

gog gmail send --to recipient@example.com
--subject "Meeting Follow-up"
--body-file - <<'EOF' Hi Name,

Thanks for meeting today. Next steps:

• Item one
• Item two

Best regards, Your Name EOF

Example (HTML list):

gog gmail send --to recipient@example.com
--subject "Meeting Follow-up"
--body-html "<p>Hi Name,</p><p>Thanks for meeting today. Here are the next steps:</p><ul><li>Item one</li><li>Item two</li></ul><p>Best regards,<br>Your Name</p>"

Notes

• Set GOG_ACCOUNT=you@gmail.com to avoid repeating --account .

• For scripting, prefer --json plus --no-input .

• Sheets values can be passed via --values-json (recommended) or as inline rows.

• Docs supports export/cat/copy. In-place edits require a Docs API client (not in gog).

• Confirm before sending mail or creating events.

• gog gmail search returns one row per thread; use gog gmail messages search when you need every individual email returned separately.