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internet/download-a-google-doc-as-specific-format.md

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+# Download A Google Doc As Specific Format
+
+I was recently given a public Google Doc URL and I was curious if I could
+download it from the command line. I didn't want to have to install special CLI
+though. I was hoping to use something like `curl`.
+
+A brief chat with Claude and I learned that not only can I use `curl`, but I
+can specify the format in the _export_ URL.
+
+```bash
+$ export GOOGLE_DOC_URL="https://docs.google.com/document/d/157rMgHeBf76T9TZnUjtrUyyS2XPwG0tObr-OjYNfMaI"
+
+$ echo $GOOGLE_DOC_URL
+https://docs.google.com/document/d/157rMgHeBf76T9TZnUjtrUyyS2XPwG0tObr-OjYNfMaI
+
+$ curl -L "$GOOGLE_DOC_URL/export?format=pdf" -o doc.pdf
+  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
+                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
+100   414    0   414    0     0   2763      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  2895
+100 16588    0 16588    0     0  56214      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  167k
+
+$ ls doc.pdf
+doc.pdf
+```
+
+I append `/export` and then include the `?format=pdf` query param to specify
+that I want the document to be exported in PDF format. With the `-o` flag I can
+specify the name and extension of the output file.
+
+This is a handy on its own, but noticing that Google Docs supports other export
+formats, I thought it would be useful to go back-and-forth with Claude to
+sketch out a script that can do this and prompt me (with `fzf`) for the file
+type -- [here is the gist for
+`gdoc-download`](https://gist.github.com/jbranchaud/cf3d2028107a1bd8484eed7cca0fcdab).