Install "publish on the web" in a Google spreadsheet using the python API on disk

Question

I am trying to simulate clicking "publish on the Internet" → "start publishing now" in Google docs using the Google Drive API version in Python. Based on my vague understanding of the documentation, I believe this should work:

service.revisions().update(fileId = newfile['id'], revisionId='head', body={'published':True, 'publishAuto': True}) 

However, this does not seem to affect my document.

I would like to be able to programmatically create a Google spreadsheet that is immediately available to the whole world.

Answer 1

Turns off the response object returned by the code fragment above, you need to call execute() :

 service.revisions().update(fileId = newfile['id'], revisionId='head', body={'published':True, 'publishAuto': True}).execute() 

This returns the revision object and sets the publication properties in the document.