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by Jacob on Apr.22, 2008, under Technical

A while ago, I found myself needing to upload many document files into Google Docs. I saw that Google had a new API for doing such, so I decided to write a quick little app for the Mac to do just that. Just drag and drop documents onto the icon, and away their uploaded.

I had never written any sort of real Mac application, so I just kind of glued something together out of Python, applescript, and a couple of helper apps. I threw the source up at Google Project Hosting, which has been good, because otherwise I would have been supporting the thousands of downloads.

Recently, my little droplet app became more famous. It was featured on lifehacker.com as a featured Mac Download. My favorite line from their post was, “Gdocsuploader is still new and a bit unpolished.” I think it should be considered more than just a bit unpolished. They should have said, “this thing might work, and is about as unpolished as lava rock.”

There have been a multitude of other posts about my little project:

Thanks to everyone who wrote something nice about it.

Related posts:

  1. GDocsUploader 1.2 released
  2. What is it? It’s a whatsit
  3. Advertising on Google code

:code, gdocsuploader, Google, Google Docs, Open Source, os x, Software
8 comments for this entry:
  1. Richard K Miller

    Congrats, Jacob. I just saw this posted on tuaw.com today.

  2. Nicola D'Agostino

    I’d likt to point out that Gdocsuploader works under Tiger. I just tried it on my Powerbook, still running 10.4.8 and altough after the upload it gave me an error message, when I checked Google Docs the document was there with all content and formatting pristine.

    nda

  3. Cody

    Hey, no problem man. We believe in giving credit where it’s due. You’ve wrote a great piece of Mac software!

    Thanks for stopping by Geekout.tv!

  4. danithew

    Thanks for putting this together. During the past week I was wishing there was a better/faster way to upload files to Google Docs. This came along at a particularly opportune time for me.

  5. V.Sergeyev

    Very useful tool, must say. And it’s coming in right time. I have written about it in Russian community Startupers.ru
    Thank you, Jacob!

  6. Vinod

    Hello Jacob! It was me who tipped off your app to LifeHacker & TUAW :) Thank you very much for this cool little app.

  7. Teddie

    Nice work Jacob, especially for just ‘throwing it together’ - seeing this, I got an idea that it would be nice to automagically take your attachments in mail.app and copy them to Gdocs. - either a rule or a script that would upload the attachment that you just received into your Google Docs (assuming it was a doc, xls, ppt, etc. - I was going to write a little applescript to send the attachment to Gdocsuploader, but Gdocs isn’t scriptable :( or I’m too stupid to figure it out.

  8. Jacob’s Technical Blog » GDocsUploader 1.2 released

    [...] 1.2 released I released version 1.2 (download) of my little GDocsUploader program. After being published on a few websites and having over 4000 downloads, I thought it might be nice to update the app a [...]

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