Send content to new Google Doc without Authorization/Authentication

Question

Is there a way to send HTML content to a new Google Doc without credentials for authorization/authentication?

In my ASP.NET app, the user creates formatted HTML content using a tinyMCE text editor. I would like to allow the user to send that content to a new Google Doc via JavaScript function.

Is this possible without knowing the user's Google Drive credentials?

Answer 1

Is this possible without knowing the user's Google Drive credentials?

Answer:

Unfortunately no, this is not possible to do.

More Information:

Creating a Google Doc requires you use the documents.create endpoint of the Google Docs API. As you can see from the documentation page, it requires one of the following OAuth scopes:

• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/documents
• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive
• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file

Using these scopes requires a user to log in with their Google account, and as such calling this method without knowing a user's credentials, is not possible.

References:

• Google Docs > API v1 - Method documents.create
• Google Identity Platform - Using OAuth 2.0 to Access Google APIs