Get Google Document as HTML

Question

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Answer 1

Node.js Solution

Using the Google APIs Node.js Client

Here's how you can get a google doc as html using google drive's node.js client library.

// import googleapis npm package
var google = require('googleapis');

// variables
var fileId = '',
    accessToken = '';

// oauth setup
var OAuth2 = google.auth.OAuth2,
    OAuth2Client = new OAuth2();

// set oauth credentials
OAuth2Client.setCredentials({access_token: accessToken});

// google drive setup
var drive = google.drive({version: 'v3', auth: OAuth2Client});

// download file as text/html
var buffers = [];
drive.files.export(
    {
        fileId: fileId,
        mimeType: 'text/html'
    }
)
    .on('error', function(err) {
        // handle error
    })
    .on('data', function(data) {
        buffers.push(data); // data is a buffer
    })
    .on('end', function() {
        var buffer = Buffer.concat(buffers),
            googleDocAsHtml = buffer.toString();
        console.log(googleDocAsHtml);
    });

Take a look at the Google Drive V3 download docs for more languages and options.