I want to get comments from Google Docs using the Google Drive API. Does anyone know if the Google Drive API (or other Google Apps Application APIs) supports retrieve commenting?
Thanks.
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developers.google.com/drive/api/v2/reference/comments/listzengr– zengr2018-10-23 23:31:10 +00:00Commented Oct 23, 2018 at 23:31
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Comments are not available via the API yet, but this is a common feature request that we are already evaluating. Stay tuned for updates soon.
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zengr
Update: It was added developers.google.com/drive/api/v2/reference/comments/list
Possible using python interface. For example, using the
printcomments function of this python script I found over on github: github.com/peterartman/GoogleDocCommentCollector/blob/…
Michael
it boggles my mind why you didn't just make everything API first
Comments are included for documents via download as text (using the DocumentsList API), although it may be difficult to distinguish comments from the regular text.
Comments for spreadsheets are included when the item is downloaded as html (again, using the DocumentsList API), but not included when downloaded in other formats.
Comments for presentations, drawings, and non-Google types are not readily available.
UPDATE
As noted by zengr, as of late 2018, comments have been added to the API.
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Shanthakumar
is this available yet?
technomage
I've not seen it, but I haven't worked with the Drive API for a while.
Shanthakumar
was trying to build a chrome extension whenever user clicks "resolve comment" button, copy all comments to doc and then resolve it. as of now when user resolves all comments are gone and not easily searchable with current UI.
technomage
If you're doing an extension, then you could add a JS hook to the "resolve" button, and then use the API to save the resolved comments as property metadata or some other invisible document section.