We are building a web application based on Google Drive API. We'd like to incorporate a facility of displaying who is viewing our "document" in real time like Google docs and spreadsheets are doing.
Implementing it from scratch would be quite challenging because of the necessity to track when a user leaves the page. So we'd first like to check if anything is already available for this purpose.
We have found out Google Analytics API may be helpful, but it can only give us a number, not user names.
Google Drive Realtime API looks promising and suitable for other needs of our development, however at the moment it's not clear whether it might help with displaying current viewers.
Any ideas on possible solutions would be greatly appreciated.
This is possible in the realtime API. See https://developers.google.com/drive/realtime/handle-events#collaborator_events
There is an example of it in the Realtime Playground.
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I am regular user of Mindmup on google drive , a top rated mind mapping tool on Google drive marketplace.
I have an 2016 Mindmup which I am not able to open. Mindmup said they can help if google can provide “Drive Realtime API data” associated with the old file.
Google has a note that claims that read only access should continue, which is not true. And the link to how to "export realtime API data" is broken.
Answer:
Unfortunately, as the Google Realtime API has been deprecated, this isn't something the Stack Overflow community can help with.
What You Can Do:
From here, your best bet is to contact Google directly and see if they can provide you with the respective API data that you need. There is still a cached version of the API reference on Google Search which you can access, which may have links to the correct pages you are looking for.
Google Support can be contacted here, though I feel for this it may be more helpful for you to contact G Suite Support directly. You'll need to follow the corresponding link to you account on this page and contact them this way.
References:
Cache of Google Realtime API Reference
Google Help
Contact G Suite Support
there,
Does Google Map API V3 include solution that allows to track moving assets without us having to develop additional mobile apps (apps to be installed on each asset to be tracked)?
My company is a Google Maps APIs Premium plan business user and we have several .Net C# web pages already using Google Map API. And we are looking for the possibility to add a moving-assets-tracking feature on our website now, but we prefer not to get into mobile app developments for this.
If that possible? I googled, but not seeing much info on this. Could you please provide some detailed examples?
Thanks!
Asset tracking is possible with Google Maps Platform, but I don't think this is possible without installing an application to the asset being tracked as there
could be no means to track it.
By V3, if you are referring to JavaScript API then it is not possible.
You may read about asset tracking in this documentation:
https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/asset-tracking/
Contacting sales team for Google Maps might be able to provide you something. But this is still unsure. The contact sales form can be found in the link above.
I am looking for a solution that would tell me if a particular company has a website. The way I imagine using it is: I would send a phrase-based query to the API (for example "Salesforce Limited") and it would return a website if it has one in its database).
I checked Google Maps API and Google Places API but can's see if they provide website addresses for places.
I know Google displays a location on the right hand side if you type a name of the place and at times also has a website link referring to it:
example data I am after
Do you know if the website data can be accessed by any of the Google APIs and if not what could be an alternative way of obtaining such data?
Thanks
Kam
I have some dynamic data. I want to call this data dynamically in google maps location positions. When user clicks the location, user should be able to see details and photo of particular location. User should be able to filter the data as per his requirement and view filtered location.
Kindly let me know what type of API i should go for. I have searched alot and i came across Google maps api, google geo, google places api, fusiontables, spreadsheets, xml, kml, javascript, webservice and much more techniques and services.
I am working on asp.net site and sql database, is there any way to work with the same platform. Else please give me proper and easy dynamic way to use the service.
I want the exact maps features used in following site : http://inspire.makemytrip.com/inspire/
Thank You
P.S. : Whoever doing Downvote for this post should first Note that Google maps API 3 official group has themselves mailed me to add Question here so if you dont wish to answer atleast dont downvote.
I would suggest using Google Maps API V3 with PHP/MySQL as there are numerable tutorials available.
If you insist on using ASP here is a start.
Given Google drive is brand spanking new. I expect there will be lots of changes, more documentation, new code examples, changes in the API. Is there some sort of mailing list or ??? I can use to stay on top of these updates?
Thanks
Andy
The Google Drive SDK has no mailing list. All questions are handled on Stack Overflow, under the google-drive-sdk tag.
For updates about changes to the SDK, subscribe to the Google Apps Developer Blog. Our standard practice is to post about all updates there.
As far as I know there isn't really a mailing list. However, Google does provide many sources for content related to Google Drive. Here is a list:
Google Blog - Introducing Google Drive... yes, really
Twitter - #google
Google Drive Product Forums - Ask, Report, Share
Google Drive SDK - Develop Application Support for Google Drive
Google Drive Help - Customer and Developer
You could do what I did.
Just hover your mouse on the google-drive-sdk tag. You will see two options. Choose between email/RSS.
Attached is the image.
http://goo.gl/bGV8h
Edit: Corrected the link