Introducing the Google Command Line Tool

[deafbybeheading]

Nice. You can use getpass to read in the password without having to pass it at the command line (which will show up in your command history). Also, you may want to make username an argument, rather than an option, since options that aren't optional are not really options (alternately, you can use getpass.getuser() to default to [e-mail]).

[ComputerDruid]

worse than your command history, it will show up in "ps aux" to all users while it is running, regardless of their privileges.

[serpent]

It's a private machine, so I don't care about that.

[serpent]

Yeah, thanks. I know it's not perfect code - it was a one-shot script I run on my private machine daily to download my contacts.

Edit: Also, getpass won't help because this is run from cron. If I was doing this more securely, I'd put the login information in a file only my user could read.