I'm a frequent user of Google applications not only Google mail but also Google's office suite.
Time ago I read about the discipline to write at least 750 words per day and I wonder how I can count the number of words that I did write in a day on a particular file residing in Google Drive.
Well, I searched and found this video to show how to create a python-based command line application to access files in Google Drive.
I'm watching it and I will figure out then how to count the number of words written in a particular day. I have to say that Google Drive uses the revision concept for managing versions in its files. Lets see how hard is this.
PS: My idea is write a short program to receive a file name and shows how many words were written during the last day. If additional parameters are passed to the program, such as a range of days, the program will show how many words have written each day during this particular range of days.
Stay tuned!
Some hints:
ReplyDelete- Read steps from 1 through 4 instead of watching the video.
- Get the code from the web page which is different from the url shown in the video, http://goo.gl/dxuuB.
- Use google-chrome instead firefox to get the 'verification code' , the web application does not interact well with foxie :(
In conclusion, visit the link (https://developers.google.com/drive/quickstart-python) with Google Chrome, remember the video is optional and prone to be outdated.