APapimade·Jun 23, 2026
Doesn’t appear to be at feature parity to GAM yet. https://github.com/GAM-team/GAM/wiki
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command line management for Google Workspace
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| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
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11 sourcesVery lame of Google.
I guess we all get to continue trusting GAM (https://github.com/GAM-team/GAM) with an entire companies most precious data, instead of, I don’t know…Google?
In Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLIBasically Google’s take on GAM https://github.com/GAM-team/GAM
In Google Workspace CLICommand line management for Google Workspace
2 points · Open discussionhttps://github.com/GAM-team/GAM
> GAM is a command line tool for Google Workspace admins to manage domain and user settings quickly and easily.
I need this about once per year, but every time it's invaluable.
In We don't have official RSS feed support for now, but we're working on a solutionYour general point definitely stands - there is a pretty nice third party solution for google workspace though: https://github.com/GAM-team/GAM
In We don't have official RSS feed support for now, but we're working on a solutionI'm not sure if you've seen this or not?
https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/52093/see-all-sh...
Generally, you would disable an account to revoke sharing. Are you sharing these outside your domain? That could be part of the problem. I agree there should be an easier way to remove sharing for everything for a particular user (and there may be). Have you checked out GAM?
https://github.com/jay0lee/GAM
In Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?Fortunately, much of GSuite admin api functionality is nicely wrapped up in the free / open / well maintained GAM cli - https://github.com/jay0lee/GAM/wiki
In How I Automated My JobGoogle's APIs make it easy to audit your groups, and if you don't want to write your own program to do it you can use the GAM command line tool. https://github.com/jay0lee/GAM/wiki
In Gripes with Google GroupsIf you're on G Suite you can use GAM (https://github.com/jay0lee/GAM) to automate mailbox exports directly to mbox files.
In Getting Google to ban our entire companyI run into this with Dito GAM[1] when handling groups/calendar access. I workaround by just making it try three times. It always succeeds on the second try.
1. https://github.com/jay0lee/GAM
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