Export file in pdf/doc/text format about google-drive-ruby HOT 8 CLOSED

download_to_file uses different API, and it seems it only supports downloading as HTML.
To download as PDF, you need to write code to fetch the URL you mentioned manually. You can probably use session.request() method to reuse the authorization google-drive-ruby provides.

It would be nice to have that feature in google-drive-ruby. But the API google-drive-ruby uses (Document List API) will be deprecated, so I need to switch to Google Drive API. So I will implement that feature after the switch (if it's available in Google Drive API).

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I don't understand why this issue is closed when it still remains. It looks like it is solved, I suggest to keep it open so is noticed there is still someone working on it.

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This issue is not closed.

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You're right, my fault, I was seeing the "Closed" tag in the comments making reference to duplicate issues and I was confused, sorry.

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Please, can someone provide a working example of a workaround for this custom export?

I'm trying but I'm not able to be success. For example, this document has public access:

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/12nB8pHtphQ_OaluOQdgMub9M1XFCSpiIbW4p7o53nm8/edit

Following this url you can download it:

• https://docs.google.com/feeds/download/documents/export/Export?id=12nB8pHtphQ_OaluOQdgMub9M1XFCSpiIbW4p7o53nm8&exportFormat=txt

If I try to do it using session.request() I obtain an empty Nokogiri::XML::Document:

r = session.request(:get, "https://docs.google.com/feeds/download/documents/export/Export?id=12nB8pHtphQ_OaluOQdgMub9M1XFCSpiIbW4p7o53nm8&exportFormat=txt")
r.inspect
=> "#<Nokogiri::XML::Document:0x3fff1a04b8a8 name=\"document\">" 

And I don't know how to actually get the content of the file

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You need no pass another parameter, look at #64 .

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Thanks @simontesar it works:

r = session.request(:get, "https://docs.google.com/feeds/download/documents/export/Export?id=12nB8pHtphQ_OaluOQdgMub9M1XFCSpiIbW4p7o53nm8&exportFormat=txt", :response_type => :raw)
puts r # => Hello

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It was fixed in google_drive 1.0.0. I confirmed that Google Document -> .pdf and .docx works. You need to use export_as_file method.

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