Getting GoogleCL to Download Drawings
While looking into backing up my Google Docs, I realized that GoogleCL is not backing up drawings.
Fixing this requires a few minor modifications to the source in {download}\src\googlecl\docs\base.py (where {download} is where you downloaded the files}.
The first fix is in the try block on line 51.
was:
from gdata.docs.data import DOCUMENT_LABEL, SPREADSHEET_LABEL, \
PRESENTATION_LABEL, FOLDER_LABEL, PDF_LABEL
To:
from gdata.docs.data import DOCUMENT_LABEL, SPREADSHEET_LABEL, \
PRESENTATION_LABEL, FOLDER_LABEL, PDF_LABEL, DRAWING_LABEL
Then, beginning on 52 (the except ImportError block), it should include DRAWING_LABEL = ‘drawing’ as below:
except ImportError: DOCUMENT_LABEL = 'document' SPREADSHEET_LABEL = 'spreadsheet' PRESENTATION_LABEL = 'presentation' DRAWING_LABEL = 'drawing' FOLDER_LABEL = 'folder' PDF_LABEL = 'pdf'
Then, on line371, the following needs to be added before the ‘else’:
except ImportError:
elif doctype_label == DRAWING_LABEL:
return googlecl.CONFIG.get(SECTION_HEADER, 'drawing_format')
Finally, in your .googlecl file (mine is under my “profile drive” because of our network settings, your mileage likely will vary, so you’ll have to search for it), open config in any text editor and add the following in the [DOCS] section:
drawing_format = png
Note: while you’re at it, you might want to change document_format = txt to document_format = doc
That’s it. Now if you run ‘google docs get .* ./backup’, you get the drawings as well.
Tags: googlecl, googledocs, python
