It had to happen, an official google application that provides access to google services via the command line. In April we showed you how to do this, the unofficial way using surfraw. Now you can do it with the blessing of the worlds most popular search engine company, Google
GoogleCL can be used to google the following services (examples shown):

• Blogger
  $ google blogger post –title “foo” “command line posting”
• Calendar
  $ google calendar add “Lunch with Jim at noon tomorrow”
• Contacts
  $ google contacts list name,email > contacts.csv
• Docs
  $ google docs edit –title “Shopping list”
• Picasa
  $ google picasa create –album “Cat Photos” ~/photos/cats/*.jpg
• Youtube
  $ google youtube post –category Education killer_robots.avi

Unfortunately, the deb which was released yesterday, doesn’t automatically setup the terminal browser. You will have to do this yourself:

gedit /home/user/.googlecl/config

After running one of the services for the first time, the above config was created. I opened it with gedit and added

auth_browser = w3m

Which is the w3m text-based browser. There are a lot more services on the way, and one can only hope this is a sign of things to come. I can think of a number of Net services which could do with a CLI interface.
( Remember to fill in forms with w3m , to log into your google account, you have to hit the enter key.)
Please check the official development page site for the last update.
Please visit the official download page to download GoogleCL (You’ll find a nice deb there waiting for U8UNTU users!)
THANKS Panoet

Sometimes opening a terminal is a lot faster than opening a browser. If you like me, then you will enjoy having some extra supercow powers at the command line.
Here is how to set up Google on the command line.
1. Install the surfraw essentials
apt-get install surfraw surfraw-extra w3m
2. Setup surfraw

sudo gedit /etc/surfraw.conf

Change the following:
SURFRAW_graphical=no
SURFRAW_text_browser=/usr/bin/w3m
save.
3. Now you have three choices:
A)  You can stick with the default action, which is:

sr google <subject>

B) You can add an alias to your bashrc

gedit /home/<user>/.bashrc

ADD under aliases section:

alias google="sr google"

Save
C) You can add the surfraw ELVIS   dirctory to yout PATH variable
usually /usr/lib/surfraw/ or /usr/local/lib/surfraw/
eg. PATH=/usr/lib/surfraw/:$PATH
This is probably not such a good option since it will also give you instant access to the 80 or so “Elvi” which are  in the surfraw directory and part of the Surfraw suite. Since  some of the commands might conflict with commands already on your system,  we might want to first check to see which Surfraw “Elvi” commands and powers you need and which ones you don’t.
Remove the ELVIS  you don’t need by deleting or moving the ELVIS from the /usr/lib/surfraw/ and placing it in /usr/local/lib/surfraw/ or vice versa. You really only want one surfraw directory in your path!!!

That’s right ELVIS isn’t dead, he just lives on as the Shell Users’ Revolutionary Front Against the World wide web.
You can still command ELVIS to do your bidding.
More info