Gdocsuploader
Posted in Technicalon Apr 22, 2008
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:
- Web Worker Daily claims it could save you a bit of friction.
- VinodLive says it shines with some cool drag and drop options
- i use this shows 2 people are using it. I wonder how many people use i use this.
- samjones jaiku’ed it saying it saves time. Erik also jaiku’ed it when he added it to his del.icio.us bookmarks.
- Geekout.tv actually mentioned me by name! Thanks to them for the nice personal reference
- It hass even gone international at macworld.idg.se. I don’t know what they’ve said, but I hope it is nice.
Thanks to everyone who wrote something nice about it.
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- Tags: code, gdocsuploader, Google, Google Docs, Open Source, os x, Software
8 Comments
Richard K Miller
April 22nd, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Congrats, Jacob. I just saw this posted on tuaw.com today.
Nicola D'Agostino
April 22nd, 2008 at 4:00 pm
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.
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Cody
April 22nd, 2008 at 7:44 pm
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!
danithew
April 23rd, 2008 at 2:36 am
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.
V.Sergeyev
April 23rd, 2008 at 6:14 am
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!
Vinod
April 23rd, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Hello Jacob! It was me who tipped off your app to LifeHacker & TUAW
Thank you very much for this cool little app.
Teddie
April 25th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
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.
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