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Ramachandra Hegde
Ramachandra Hegde

Reputation: 11

Read the word document content from google drive

I am trying fetch doc content from google drive using the Google sdk. The problem is, the get() function is not working properly. It gives only file metadata not any actual content.

$googl = new Googl(); 
$this->client = $googl->client();
$this->client->setAccessToken(session('user.token'));
$this->drive = $googl->drive($this->client);

$file = $this->drive->files->get("fileId"); 
return $file;

Upvotes: 1

Views: 380

Answers (2)

Linda Lawton - DaImTo
Linda Lawton - DaImTo

Reputation: 117016

I suspect that we may have a language issue here.

Read the content from a Google drive file

The google drive api is a file datastore api. This means that it stores the file itself and the information about said file. It does not give you any access to the contents of that file.

If you want to know what is in the file you will need to download the file and open it up on your machine.

or try Google documents api however i suspect that it will only be able to read a google drive document file and not a word file you may have to convert it first.

download the the file

If you check the documentation for Download Files you will find the following.

 $fileId = '0BwwA4oUTeiV1UVNwOHItT0xfa2M';
$response = $driveService->files->get($fileId, array(
    'alt' => 'media'));
$content = $response->getBody()->getContents();

Upvotes: 1

D Malan
D Malan

Reputation: 11424

From the documentation it looks like you can download a file using:

$file = $this->drive->files->get("fileId", array('alt' => 'media'));
$content = $file->getBody()->getContents();

Upvotes: 2

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