I can develop downloading a spreadsheet file as html function when I use documents list api, but I can't download spreadsheet as html using drive api.
I've found this problem after migrating from docs list api to drive api.
Is there any way to downloading a spreadsheet as html using drive api?
Please advise,
Thanks.
With Old style spreadsheet (max 400,000 cells) this works:
Download a Google Docs Spreadsheet as HTML
With new style spreadsheet, I have not tested, but I assume you can use the above method to download it as a zip. So if you open your spreadsheet, select download as html, it will give you the link to the zip. Use this link as described in "Download a Google Docs Spreadsheet as HTML". So, I have not tested this, but it looks like everything is the same, so it might work.
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Using the Google Drive API I can get a file's webViewLink to link to the file-preview in Drive, and the user can then select 'Open with Google Sheets' in the top bar to open the file up in Sheets.
Is there a way to skip that intermediary step, and link directly to that file in Google Sheets?
File.resource also contains a link called webViewLink
webViewLink string A link for opening the file in a relevant Google editor or viewer in a browser.
This will not work on all file types but it should work on sheets.
What are you seeing in webViewLink?
When I try, I get
"webViewLink": https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1egZQnArX7TOHlQWSHiba3TTNt9Y7JoqgDAIJMdM0MQ/edit?usp=drivesdk"
which directly opens the sheet.
So a couple of things:-
Are you sure that the file in question is a native Google spreadsheet, or is it, for example, an uploaded Excel
If your webViewLink is different, you could construct the URL yourself by setting your own file's ID after the /d/
What's an efficient way of making an offline backup of a Google spreadsheet so that it includes its Google script files? It seems that if I use the Download as Microsoft Excel File feature, the downloaded xlsx file does not include any Google script that is part of the spreadsheet.
I saw a post about a command line tool called "Clasp" by Google that can be used but I was hoping to use something that is not so arcane.
I've been doing some research to find out which API dropbox is using to edit docs, sheets, and slides using google doc editors inside its own application. I've looked at Google Docs API, Google Drive API, and Google App Scripts I still don't have a clear answer.
From the looks of it files are uploaded to Dropbox, then can be opened in Google's editors and they are saved back to dropbox after editing. These files don't show in my google drive so I am assuming they are not being saved by Google.
These API are correct. It's your assumption that is wrongful. Dropbox may act as a Drive application and these files are outside of your reach, nevertheless still within your Drive.
Here it's explained: store application-specific data.
I have created a Google form with few responses. I want to download those responses as PDF format into my local pc using a script run by Apps Script. I can't find any apis in Apps Script to do so.
Any ideas? Thank you.
When you have a Form, it will save your responses in a Sheet, as described here. You can export that sheet as PDF following step 2 in this tutorial using the UI.
If you want to use GAS, you can follow this tutorial, to show you how to create an add-on for it. You can also follow this answer to get a single sheet as a PDF.
However, I believe the suggestion of doing it with the UI will work best for you, since each form has only that Spreadsheet associated to it, and it will have only one sheet.
Is it possible to remove the version history in Google Doc or Google sheet without duplicating the file. App Script solutions are also welcome.
You can use the Google Drive API to remove one or more revisions of a file. However, this method can only work with files that have binary content, not native Google formats.