Google offers a number of services using a Google account. Many
of these services also expose a Web API. this package provides a
set of Emacs modules for accessing these services from inside
Emacs. These modules are designed with an Emacs-centric, rather
than a Web-browser centered view of the world. Where necessary
Emacs package browse-url is used to invoke the Web browser of
choice.
The current distribution can be downloaded from Google Code Hosting and the source code is available via Subversion. Note that this is still work in progress. I'm releasing it as part of the Emacspeak project since I believe the package already has sufficiently useful functionality for users who spend a large amount of their time inside Emacs. There is no dependency on Emacspeak, and all clients provided here can be used without Emacspeak loaded.
These are needed only if installing package g-client
stand-alone, i.e. outside of Emacspeak.
g-client
directory on your emacs load-path.
make to compile the code.
(load-library "g") to set it up.
Clients are implemented using Google APIs based on Atom
Publishing Protocol APP and Google Data APIs (GData). We use curl
to retrieve content via HTTPS and xsltproc to transform the
retrieved content to browsable HTML.
Clients sign you in the first time you invoke commands that require authentication. Once signed in, the session cookie is cached for future use. Session cookies presently expire in 30 minutes, and clients check for expired cookies when authentication is needed. If the cookie has expired, clients retrieve a fresh cookie using the authentication credentials provided earlier. Note that authorization tokens etc are specific to a given service.
All clients in this package use Emacs' customize interface to
set user preferences.
The most commonly used ones are enumerated below.
g-user-email Default email-id to use. Individual clients
typically override this via user option
<clientname>-user-email.
g-html-handler Name of function that handles HTML content.
This client implements posting, editting and deleting of blog
entries using the new Blogger API --- it replaces the now
obsolete atom-blogger that implemented similar functionality
using the old Blogger API. It uses value of customization option
g-user-email by default; this can be overridden via option
gblogger-user-email. See Blogger GData API for the underlying
APIs used. For editing posts, I recommend installing nxml-mode.
gblogger-blog brings up the list of blogs
owned by the currently authenticated user.
gblogger-new-entry takes a post URL and sets
up a special buffer where you can compose your
article. the post url is obtained from the feed of blogs
above, use the post link for the blog to which you wish to
post.
gblogger-atom-display displays the
atom feed for a specified blog as a browsable HTML page. In
addition to reading your blog, this helps you find the edit url for individual posts.
gblogger-edit-entry takes the edit url
of a previously posted entry. It retrieves the entry, and
sets up a special composition buffer where you can edit the entry.
gblogger-new-entry and gblogger-edit-entry
provide a special command gblogger-publish (bound to C-c C-c) that submits the entry to blogger.
gblogger-delete-entry deletes an entry
specified by its edit url.
This client can be used to view, add or delete events from the
Google Calendar for the authenticated user. It uses value of
customization option g-user-email by default; this can be
overridden via option gcal-user-email. Commands that display
calendar items optionally accept the feed url of the calendar to
view; this can be used to view calendars to which the
authenticated user has read access. See GData Calendar API for
the underlying APIs used.
gcal-calendar-agenda displays the default
calendar for the authenticated user. A prefix arg prompts for
the calendar to display. This command is best used from
inside the Emacs calendar; in this case, it uses the date
under point when showing the agenda.
gcal-add-event prompts for event details and
adds it to the calendar.
gcal-accept-event accepts an event. Event
is specified using the edit url of the event.
gcal-delete-event deletes an event. Event
is specified using the edit url of the event.
This client allows the authenticated user to read, browse and
subscribe/unsubscribe to feeds.
It uses value of customization option g-user-email by
default; this can be overridden via option g-user-email.
greader-reading-list displays the
reading list (river of news).
greader-feed-list displays a
browsable Web page with pointers to subscribed feeds.
greader-find-feeds searches for matching
feeds to subscribe.
greader-subscribe-feed and
greader-unsubscribe-feed are used to subscribe and
unsubscribe.
greader-star and greader-add-label are
used to label articles.
greader-reading-list. Thus, C-u M-x greader-reading-list
will prompt for the specific set of articles to retrieve.
Date: 2007/03/02 10:36:07