Google Docs Integration

Question

Has anyone integrated "Open in Google Docs" in their web application? Gmail has this for opening attachments. What about any other comments about this in a non-Google web app?

Answer 1

Google Docs has an API that allows you to search, download, delete and retrieve documents from the list of Google Docs for a specific user, you could use this to download a document from your server, and then get the URL of this document (after importing it), which can then be used to redirect the user. It would not be as smooth as Gmail integration, since you could not show this fancy page "Importing your document ...", but that might be enough.

As for the other observations, I do not know anything.

Answer 2

If you only need this functionality, you can download the " Send to google docs" firefox extension . This will add a context menu to all document links on the Internet and allow you to open them in Google documents.

Answer 3

You should take a look at the Google Docs List Data API

Answer 4

There is an implementation of gdata objective-c for api access.

http://code.google.com/p/gdata-objectivec-client/