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Example code:
import os
from google.oauth2.credentials import Credentials
from googleapiclient.discovery import build
from google.auth import default
def get_document_dates(doc_id, creds_file=None):
scopes = ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/documents.readonly']
if creds_file and os.path.exists(creds_file):
creds = Credentials.from_service_account_file(creds_file, scopes=scopes)
else:
creds, project = default(scopes=scopes)
# Build the Docs API service
service = build('docs', 'v1', credentials=creds)
# Get the document
document = service.documents().get(
documentId=doc_id,
fields='body'
).execute()
# Access the document's content
content = document.get('body').get('content')
# Process each element
for element in content:
if 'paragraph' in element:
paragraph = element.get('paragraph')
elements = paragraph.get('elements', [])
for elem in elements:
print(elem)The first section of the doc:
I want to parse the date via the python API: Jan 13, 2025.
The first few elements printed:
{'startIndex': 1, 'endIndex': 5, 'textRun': {'content': '\ue907 | ', 'textStyle': {}}}
{'startIndex': 5, 'endIndex': 6, 'richLink': {'richLinkId': 'kix.p3Xj3hkh7bXl', 'textStyle': {}, 'richLinkProperties': {'title': 'Asana Board New NGS Submissions', 'uri': 'https://www.google.com/calendar/event?eid=XXX'}}}
{'startIndex': 6, 'endIndex': 7, 'textRun': {'content': '\n', 'textStyle': {}}}
{'startIndex': 7, 'endIndex': 18, 'textRun': {'content': 'Attendees: ', 'textStyle': {}}}
The date is returned in the first element as \ue907. How can that be converted to a date?
Note: there is a richLinkId in the second element, but that is for a separate calendar element, and not the Jan 13, 2025 date element.
More generally, why are date elements returned as unicode instead of something easier to work with?