grunt-docs-archieml

grunt-docs-archieml

Generate JSON file from Google Docs with ArchieML

Install

npm install grunt-docs-archieml --save

Getting credentials

1. Got to https://console.developers.google.com
2. Create an account
3. Make sure you have the Google Drive API enabled a. In the left sidebar click Dashboard and then click on ENABLE API b. Click on DRIVE API and if it’s not enabled just click on ENABLE
4. In the right sidebar click Credentials
5. Then click Create credentials, select oAuth client ID and then select Web Application
6. Name your Web Application
7. Enter https://developers.google.com/oauthplayground as an authorized redirect URL
8. Copy and have your Client ID and Client Secret ready
9. Go to https://developers.google.com/oauthplayground/
10. Under Step 1 check all Dirve API v3
11. Click the Gear button in upper right of the page and check Use your own OAuth credentials
12. Enter your Client ID and Client secret
13. Go back to the Step 1 section on the left and click Authorize APIs
14. Click on Exchange authorization code for tokens and copy the generated refresh token.
15. Rename auth.sample.json to auth.json and add your info:

{
  "client_id": "your_CLIENT_ID",
  "client_secret": "your_CLIENT_SECRET",
  "oAuthTokens":{"refresh_token": "your_REFRESH_TOKEN"}
} 

Setup

Grab Google Doc ID and paste into provided project.json file or your own. If you have your own, make sure to update the docsID variable in the Gruntfile.js with the correct path to your project.json file.

With the Google Doc open, go to File > Publish to web, click on PUBLISH under the Link section and copy the ID from the URL. The ID is in between the ‘d’ and ‘pub’ part of the URL. See below for example. Below is a sample URL and the Google Doc ID starts wit the number one: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1phiDD07FGcnApHk93xhLaWfbTRm9LhTmQHs8acsagj0/pub

Running

Run the following command and the JSON file will be in the the json directory called text.json

$ grunt archieml