I was wondering how does Google save the changes made to a Google document on the fly. Obviously it cannot send all the contents of the document being edited on keyup. I had left Firebug open and it seems like on keyup a text range along with whats changed in that range is being sent. Though I m not sure of this. Any idea how this is being done?
Operational Transformation is the core idea behind by many collaborative real-time editors. Google Wave Operational Transformation documents the protocol in Google Wave, and I'd assume that Google Docs is similar.
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I am pretty new to Python, and I recently took on a project in which I am supposed to create a google sheets add on in python that edits that specific sheet when it is used.
https://developers.google.com/workspace/add-ons/guides/alternate-runtimes
I stumbled upon this tutorial, but I am very lost. I do not understand what "Pick your hosting infrastructure and set up your HTTPS endpoints" means, and I was able to follow steps 1-8 under "Create a Deployment Resource", but I was lost on step 9.
Could somebody help me with this task?
Picking your hosting infrastructure is saying to basically pick your server provider. Hosting just refers to servers because everything on the web needs to be hosted for everyone to access. HTTPS endpoints are urls that points to the location of resources in the server.
Step 9 was referring to creating a json file with information about your add on. I'm not particularly comfortable with JSON but from my understanding it's just using attribute:value pairs like CSS but it's used for storing and transmitting information.
Really hopes this helps, don't give up and dont get intimidated by this terminology. Best of luck!
This is my first post ever, so I hope it is alright.
I am working on a Raspberry Pi Zero W, and I am trying to make a live speech-to-text translator. I have researched, and I think I need to use the SpeechRecognition module, and I have been doing that and did end up writing a program that does what I need it to using the Google speech to text module, and it does the job just not live.
I think for me to make it transcribe it live, I need to use the IBM Watson Speech to Text with something called Websockets.
I can not seem to find a lot of information about those two together yet alone any code, if any of you have any experience with transcribing live to text using this or any other way in Python I would really appreciate if you could point me in the right direction, and any code would be fantastic.
Google have live speech to text transcription API. They also provide the source code to get you started on it. Check this github page. All it does is it listens to your microphone and sends you the text version of whatever you are saying in real time.
This is an example software that works right out of the box. All you need to do is to run with your GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS saved in your environment variables.
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I have been trying to utilize Google Drive's REST API to recieve file changes as push notifications, but I have no idea on where to start. As I am new to programming all together, I am unable to find any solutions.
I am using Python to develop my code, and the script that I am writing is to monitor any changes in any given spreadsheet to run some operations on then modified spreadsheet data.
Considering I was able to set up the Sheets and Drive (readonly) APIs properly, I am confident that given some direction, I would be able to setup this notification reciever/listener as well.
Here is Google Drive API Feature Page.
Just follow the guide in Detect Changes
For Google Drive apps that need to keep track of changes to files, the
Changes collection provides an efficient way to detect changes to all
files, including those that have been shared with a user. The
collection works by providing the current state of each file, if and
only if the file has changed since a given point in time.
Retrieving changes requires a pageToken to indicate a point in time to
fetch changes from.
There's a github code demo that you can test and base your project on.
I'm writing a program to make automatic reports via Google Analytics and everything was going fine until i saw that there should be graphical images, like the Analytics web version. (Most important example, the Behavior Flow)
Is there anyway i can implement this, through code, in PDF ?
You mentioned you wrote a program to download the GA data, so you have the knowledge to upload the data to a Google Spreadsheet. For more info on their api, try this URL: https://developers.google.com/google-apps/spreadsheets/?hl=en
Once the data is in a sheet within a Google Spreadsheet, you can use Google Data Visualizations. You can put the visualizations on a chart, or you can embed them in HTML, referring to the data sheet as a datasource.
The only challenge would be the Behavioural flow. I suggest that if your page flow is fairly static, you could probably draw something dynamically using GSS's ability to alter the sizes of block images dynamically, based on data values.
Chart Gallery:
https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/gallery?hl=en
This would entail a lot of work, as free solutions often are, but you should be able to get the result you want.
Im thinking of setting up a Google App that simply displays an RSS or Atom feed. The idea is that every once in a while (a cron job or at the push of a magic button) the feed is read and copied into the apps internal data, ready to be viewed. This would be done in Python.
I found this page that seems to explain what I want to do. But that is assuming Im using some of the other Google products as it relies on the Google API.
My idea was more in line that added some new content, hosted it locally on my machine, went to the Google App administration panel, pushed a button and my (locally hosted) feed was read and copied.
My questions now are:
Is the RSS (or Atom, one is enough) format specified enough to handle add/edit/delete?
Are there any flavors or such I should worry about?
Have this been done before? Would save me some work.
One option is to use the universal feed parser library, which will take care of most of these issues for you. Another option would be to use a PubSubHubbub-powered service such as Superfeedr, which will POST updates to you in a pre-sanitized form, eliminating most of your polling and parsing issues.
What about using an additional library, like for instance Feedparser?