Google docs viewer url parameters

Question

Is there any sort of documentation on exactly what parameters you can put in the url of Google viewer?

Originally, I thought it was just url,embedded,chrome, but I've recently come accross other funny ones like a,pagenumber, and a few others for authentication etc.

Any clues?

Answer 1

One I know is "chrome"

If you've got https://docs.google.com/viewer?........;chrome=true

then you see a fairly heavy UI version of that doc, however with "chrome=false" you get a compact version.

But indeed, I'd like a complete list myself!

Answer 2

You can pass q=whatever to pass a search query to the viewer.

Answer 3

I'm also on a quest to discover some of the parameters of the viewer. the "chrome" parameter doesn't seem to do anything, though. Is this supposed to be the same as embedded=true?

Parameters I know of:

url= (obviously)
embedded= (obviously)
hl= set language of UI (tooltips)
#:0.page.1 = jump to page 2 (page 1 is numbered 0) - this is unreliable and often requires a refresh after the first load, defeating the purpose.

That said, when I use the Google Docs viewer on my site, "fit page to screen" is the default view without any parameters. So maybe I'm misunderstanding your question.

_{Source: For convenience, this is a full quote of the sole answer (it is from user k3david) to the crosspost of this question @Doc has posted to the Google support forum in 2011.}