How to get Google Doc text?

Question

API

The task is to get the text of the document that lies in the Google Document.

I can't figure out the Google API. English needs to be learned, but that's tomorrow. Today we need to solve the problem.
Someone worked with Google API? Tell me an adequate tutorial or throw some experience on this issue.

Answer 1

Probably the easiest way to get the text of a Document is to use the Google Drive API.
Method

GET https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/files/fileId

returns a list of possible exports

{
  "exportLinks": {
    "application/rtf": "https://docs.google.com/feeds/download/documents/export/Export?id=ABC&exportFormat=rtf",
    "application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text": "https://docs.google.com/feeds/download/documents/export/Export?id=ABC&exportFormat=odt",
    "text/html": "https://docs.google.com/feeds/download/documents/export/Export?id=ABC&exportFormat=html",
    "application/pdf": "https://docs.google.com/feeds/download/documents/export/Export?id=ABC&exportFormat=pdf",
    "application/epub+zip": "https://docs.google.com/feeds/download/documents/export/Export?id=ABC&exportFormat=epub",
    "application/zip": "https://docs.google.com/feeds/download/documents/export/Export?id=ABC&exportFormat=zip",
    "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document": "https://docs.google.com/feeds/download/documents/export/Export?id=ABC&exportFormat=docx",
    "text/plain": "https://docs.google.com/feeds/download/documents/export/Export?id=ABC&exportFormat=txt"
  }
}

For your file with id "ABC" log in with permissions https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.readonlyand call

GET https://docs.google.com/feeds/download/documents/export/Export?id=ABC&exportFormat=txt