https://github.com/hazimavdal/gpurge

A utility to convert Google Documents to physical files
https://github.com/hazimavdal/gpurge

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A utility to convert Google Documents to physical files

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/hazimavdal/gpurge
• Owner: hazimavdal
• License: mit
• Created: 2020-02-25T00:19:30.000Z (almost 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-09-24T05:38:04.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-07T12:12:31.230Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: google, google-docs, google-drive, google-sheets, microsoft-excel, microsoft-word, self-hosting
• Language: Python
• Homepage:
• Size: 31.3 KB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.md

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# GPurge

This is a utility that converts Google Documents, Sheets, etc. to physical files. `gpurge` can search in a local folder (typically a fully-synced Google Drive folder) recursively and convert all `.godc` and `gsheet` files to `.docx` and `xlsx`, respectively.

## Prerequisites

- Python 3.6 or greater

- [Google Drive Python Client Library V3](https://developers.google.com/drive/api/v3/quickstart/python#step_2_install_the_google_client_library)

```

pip3 install --upgrade google-api-python-client google-auth-httplib2 google-auth-oauthlib

```

- [Turn on Drive API](https://developers.google.com/drive/api/v3/enable-drive-api). Save the `credentials.json` file as `creds/client_id.json` in the same folder as the `gpurge.py` file.

## Usage

Run `./gpurge.py -h`.

## Google Docs are great, why convert to MS Word?

Here are some scenarios that make sense to do this:

- You want to archive your files and guarantee that you have access to their _content_ 20 years from now. Google [killed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products) a great many products in the past, and it is not unlikely that they will discontinue Google Docs at some point in the future.   

- Be able to perform bulk operations on these documents locally, such as searching.

- You need to port your files to another system. How many applications out there can process `.gdoc` files, other than Google Docs?