milinddeore / google-docs-example

Using google docs APIs, populate Wikipedia content.

google-docs-example

Using google docs APIs, populate Wikipedia content on COVID-19 (A pandamic, causing worldwide lockdown)

Installation

Very well documented steps can be found here. As the steps on the page suggest please enable the APIs so that you can start using cloud services. 

Step 1: 

Follow the button links to gain access to Google documents APIs. Download the credentials.json to your work area where you will be creating your google client project. 

Step 2:

Install Google's python client for cloud APIs. 

pip3 install --upgrade google-api-python-client google-auth-httplib2 google-auth-oauthlib

Step 3: (Optional)

We are scrapping content from Wikipedia and hence we need this python package, otherwise its optional. 

pip3 install wikipedia-api

Template

The template i used can be found here.

Running the project

By default, the project use my template but feel free to change the tamplate and respective code. To run the code:

python google-docs-example.py

Debugging

As an example, if you would like to see the JSON dump of requests structure, please set 'DEBUG = 1'. Likewise you can dump requests as any stage in the document.