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+GooBook -- Access your Google contacts from the command line.
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+
+.. contents:: **Table of Contents**
+
+-------------------------
+About
+-------------------------
+
+The purpose of GooBook is to make it possible to use your Google Contacts in
+a MUA such as Mutt. It's use mimics that of abook (somewhat).
+
+-------------------------
+Installation Instructions
+-------------------------
+
+GooBook is only released as a source distribution.
+
+It can be installed using easy_install or pip or manually with the source
+tarball.
+
+===================
+easy_install or pip
+===================
+
+This is the recommended way to install goobook.
+If installing this way you will not need to download the source manually.
+
+Run easy_install or pip::
+
+ $ easy_install -U goobook
+ $ pip install goobook
+
+easy_install is part of setuptools which should come with most distributions.
+
+
+===================
+Source installation
+===================
+
+Download the source tarball, uncompress it, then run the install command::
+
+ $ tar -xzvf goobook-*.tar.gz
+ $ cd goobook-*
+ $ sudo python ./setup.py install
+
+=========
+Upgrading
+=========
+
+If you are upgrading from a pre 1.0 version you will have to remove the old
+cachefile and create a new configuration.
+
+-----------------------------
+Configure
+-----------------------------
+
+For most users it will be enough to add an entry to your ~/.netrc::
+
+ machine google.com
+ login your@google.email
+ password secret
+
+To get access too more settings you can create ~/.goobookrc::
+
+ [DEFAULT]
+ # If not given here, email and password is taken from .netrc using
+ # machine google.com
+ email: user@gmail.com
+ password: top secret
+ # The following are optional, defaults are shown
+ max_results: 9999
+ cache_filename: ~/.goobook_cache
+ cache_expiry_hours: 24
+
+==============
+Proxy settings
+==============
+
+If you use a proxy you need to set the https_proxy environment variable.
+
+-----------------------------
+Usage
+-----------------------------
+
+To query your contacts::
+
+ $ goobook query QUERY
+
+The add command reads a email from STDIN and adds the From address to your Google contacts::
+
+ $ goobook add
+
+The cache is updated automatically according to the configuration but you can also force an update::
+
+ $ goobook reload
+
+==========
+Mutt Setup
+==========
+
+Set in your .muttrc file::
+
+ set query_command="goobook query '%s'
+
+to query address book. (Normally bound to "Q" key.)
+
+If you want to be able to use <tab> to complete email addresses instead of Ctrl-t add this:
+
+ bind editor <Tab> complete-query
+
+To add email addresses (with "a" key normally bound to create-alias command)::
+
+ macro index,pager a "<pipe-message>goobook add<return>" "add the sender address to Google contacts"
+
+If you want to add an email's sender to Contacts, press a while it's selected in the index or pager.
+
+-----------------------------
+Feedback and getting involved
+-----------------------------
+
+- Mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/goobook
+- Issue tracker: http://code.google.com/p/goobook/issues/list
+- Code Repository: http://code.google.com/p/goobook/source/checkout