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anon
anon

Reputation:

Google Docs download en masse

These days I keep most of my development notes and documentations in Google Docs. There are time that I'd like to download everything. How is this possible on a Mac and Linux computers, without doing each one individually? Google used to have the ability to download all spreadsheets. However, I can no longer find this functionality.

I would like to have the documents in Open Office or HTML format. Thanks.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1001

Answers (4)

wescpy
wescpy

Reputation: 11167

You can do this easily with the Google Drive API. I have a blog post featuring a short Python script that exports a Google Sheet as CSV. You can take that example, and make these changes to make it work for you:

  1. Source MIMEtype goes from Sheets to Docs -- for all G Suite/Google Apps (import) MIMEtypes, see this page
  2. Destination MIMEtype changes from CSV to whatever you want that's supported (Open Office & HTML included) -- for all export MIMEtypes, see this page

If you prefer to use something other than Python, use that example as pseudocode, then create your solution in any language supported by the Google APIs Client Libraries. Sample code in other languages can also be found on this page.

Once you're done, stick it in some cron job to run it regularly without you having to think about it -- you may have to add timestamping to the exported filenames to prevent overwrites. Hope this helps!

Upvotes: 0

Fabrizio Accatino
Fabrizio Accatino

Reputation: 2302

GDocBackup http://gs.fhtino.it/gdocbackup
C#, Open Source, runs on Win + Net and Linux + Mono (not tested on Mac + Mono, sorry).

Upvotes: 0

anon
anon

Reputation:

I looked into Joe's answer. gdatacopier is a useful tool to bulk download documents. Here's one example that I use to download all my spreadsheets from a named folder.

gdoc-cp.py -e csv -g spreadsheets -o /tmp -u [email protected] -p password -f "MyFolder"

There are several examples in the documentation. One limitation is that it does not seem to work for hosted domains. All email addresses must be [email protected].

Bulk uploads seem quite doable too. Getting this example to work was straight forward.

http://www.webmonkey.com/tutorial/Create_Automated_Backups_in_Google_Docs_Using_the_GData_API

Upvotes: 2

Joe
Joe

Reputation:

If you install google gears into your browser: http://gears.google.com/

You can use the built-in offline functionality inside of google docs

If you really want to roll up your sleeves, use the gdata API

http://code.google.com/p/gdatacopier/

Upvotes: 2

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