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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).