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Google Docs error: Error from halted execution: Nothing could be found for the search.

  • March 29, 2023
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Anton2023

How I can get text from Google Document given its id?

I tried to do it via Google Docs - Find a Document , but the document is not found.
 

 

 

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Troy Tessalone
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  • March 29, 2023

Hi @Anton2023 

Good question.

GDocs does not provide the file contents.

Dropbox has an option to include file contents.

Even that is limited as per the field description.

 


Anton2023
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  • March 29, 2023

@Troy Tessalone thank you.

Also I find API GET function to get document in txt format: https://docs.google.com/document/d/DOCUMENT_ID/export?format=txt How I can import txt file in zapier?


Troy Tessalone
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  • March 29, 2023

@Anton2023

I have not solved for that yet, so at this time, I don’t know.