jpstroop/gdocs-automation

Google Docs Automation

A set of helpful functions for automating tasks in Google Drive and Google Docs. [WIP]

To get started:

1. Make sure you have a working pipenv environment, with Python 3.7. Clone and run pipenv install.
2. Create a project and enable the Google Docs API:
   1. Create a project: https://console.cloud.google.com/cloud-resource-manager
   2. Visit https://console.developers.google.com/apis/library/docs.googleapis.com and enable the Docs API
   3. If there are creds available, download mv them to secrets/client_id.json
   4. Otherwise, Click "CREATE CREDENTIALS":
      1. Which API are you using? Choose "Google Drive API"
      2. Where will you be calling the API from? Choose "Other UI (e.g. Windows, CLI tool)"
      3. What data will you be accessing? Choose "User Data"
      4. Follow remaining instructions
      5. Download** credentials and place them in secrets/client_id.json (Note that the name of the downloaded file may be different. It's the contents that are important. mv the file to the path/name above.)
3. Place a JSON file config.json in secrets/ with the following keys:

   {
     "tbd_1" : "foo",
     "tbd_2" : ["bar", "baz", "quux"]
   }