How can developers edit a Google Doc programmatically? Is there a Docs API?

Question

There doesn\'t seem to be (to my knowledge) an API to edit Google Docs (not spreadsheets, their HTML based documents). Has anyone done something like the? Maybe by downloadi

Answer 1

There is com.google.api.services.drive.model.File.getExportLinks

You can get a Google Doc as a docx (for example), edit it using your favourite docx editor, then upload again. See the samples for doing this (starting with GoogleDriveDownloadAsDocx) in the context of docx4j. Note the README.

Or do the same with any of the other export formats.