How to use Google Workspace CLI: what you can do with it

3 use cases

• Script Gmail, Drive and Sheets from the terminal

  Install gws, sign in once, and call any Workspace API with JSON in and JSON out.

  • REPO googleworkspace/cli
  • Work and operations
  • Intermediate
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  Install googleworkspace/cli, authenticate it, and write a script that lists my 20 most recent Drive files into a new Google Sheet called <title>. Use --dry-run first and show me the output.

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• Give your coding agent Gmail, Drive and Calendar skills

  Add the gws agent skills so your agent can use Workspace through the CLI.

  • REPO googleworkspace/cli
  • Claude Code
  • Codex
  • Gemini CLI
  • Work and operations
  • Intermediate
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  Add googleworkspace/cli's gws-gmail and gws-calendar skills to my agent, then draft (do not send) replies to my 3 most recent unread emails and list my meetings for tomorrow.

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• Triage your inbox and see your agenda with helper commands

  Use the + helpers for common jobs like inbox triage, sending mail and your agenda.

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  • Work and operations
  • Beginner
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  Using googleworkspace/cli helpers, show my agenda for today and run gmail +triage on unread mail, and summarise what needs a reply. Do not send anything.

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Quick start with Google Workspace CLI

1. Check you have what it needs: A Google account and a Google Cloud project for OAuth (gws auth setup walks you through it); npm, Homebrew, Cargo or Nix.
2. Open googleworkspace/cli on GitHub and read the README and license.
3. Install: npm install -g @googleworkspace/cli or brew install googleworkspace-cli
4. Run gws auth setup once, then gws auth login
5. List files: gws drive files list --params '{"pageSize": 10}'
6. Create a sheet: gws sheets spreadsheets create --json '{"properties": {"title": "Q1 Budget"}}'

These steps come from our top use case, Script Gmail, Drive and Sheets from the terminal, which also has a copy-paste agent prompt.

Using the Deduped MCP, get the setup steps for googleworkspace/cli

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About this repo

• Who it is forDevelopers, admins and agent builders who want to script Gmail, Drive, Calendar and Sheets without writing API boilerplate.
• Why it is hot32k stars, talked about in 2 AI sources we track
• LanguageRust
• Sourcegithub.com/googleworkspace/cli · Back to Hot repos

Requirements

• A Google account and a Google Cloud project for OAuth (gws auth setup walks you through it)
• npm, Homebrew, Cargo or Nix

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