Downloading documents programmatically with Google Docs API

sausheong shows the way to download Google Docs through API

An interesting and perhaps little known feature in the Google Documents List Data API (perhaps because it’s currently undocumented!) is that you can use the APIs to programmatically get the word processor documents in various formats. This means that if you have a document currently in your folder (or anyone’s folder for that matter), you can use the APIs to save it to your computer. Why is this useful, since we can already do this from the browser?

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