I am trying to automate some simple updating of a Google spreadsheet and I'm using the gspread library to do so. One task that is critical and not currently supported by gspread is the ability to add comments to a specific cell (there's an open issue for this and even a gist solution but I was getting a 404 error when trying to use it).
I know that the Google Drive API (v3) supports adding comments as described here, but I'm having issues with authenticating and could use some help.
What I have/know:
I have already setup the OAuth 2.0 and registered for the API through Google, as well as have the client_secret.json in my directory, but my knowledge of web requests and responses is limited so going through the Drive API documentation hardly makes sense. I know in order to create the comments I will have to make use of anchors and specify the cell location using column/row numbers.
What I'm stuck on:
When using the Google API Explorer, I'm getting a 400 error with the message: The 'fields' parameter is required for this method. How can I make the POST request using my authentication? I think from there I'd be able to actually add the comments myself.
I'm getting a 400 error with the message: The 'fields' parameter is required for this method
The error is asking for a property which you want returned (these properties are listed in Drive API files resource).
You can just place ' * ' to indicate you want it to return a complete response. That's the quick fix.
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Can anybody give me sample code in python to find the folder Id (especially the last folder created) in google drive? Your help will be immensely appreciated.
Stackoverflow and the Drive API documentation have enough samples of python code for Google Drive API requests, you just need to define the basic steps and patch the corresponding code parts together
Any Google Drive API request need to be based on the Drive API Quickstart for Python which implements OAuth2 authorization flow and creation of an authenticated service.
Once you have this, you can list your files to retrieve their Ids.
In order to narrow down the results, you can define the search parameter q, e.g. specifying mimeType = 'application/vnd.google-apps.folder'.
Use the parameter orderBy to request that the most recent modified folders will be shown first.
Use the paramter pageSize to define how many results you want to obtain (if you want to obtain the newst folder Id only - 1 is a valid value).
Stackoverflow is not meant to help you write a code from scratch, I recommend you to search e.g. with the following specifications for similar questions and try to patch together your code yourself.
Then, if necessary, post a new question with your code explaining where you got stuck and asking for specific help.
Hint: Before implementing your request into Python, test it with the "Try this API" functionality of the Files:
list to make sure that you adapted the parameters correctly to your needs
I want to save the data column from this url to an array in python. I tried it with, for instance, pandas.save_table:
import pandas as pd
pd.read_table('https://adventofcode.com/2019/day/1/input', sep='')
but I get HTTPError: HTTP Error 400: Bad Request and I think this is not the right way to do that.
Can someone help me with that?
If you try to open the link in your question (in a browser using incognito mode or something similar i.e. delete your cookies) you'll see that you need login into the website to access the page. This is why the you're getting a 400 Bad Request error as a response from the server.
From the FAQ section of the website that you're trying to access:
How does authentication work? Advent of Code uses OAuth to confirm
your identity through other services. When you log in, you only ever
give your credentials to that service - never to Advent of Code. Then,
the service you use tells the Advent of Code servers that you're
really you. In general, this reveals no information about you beyond
what is already public; here are examples from Reddit and GitHub.
Advent of Code will remember your unique ID, names, URL, and image
from the service you use to authenticate.
The website uses OAuth to handle logins to the url that you create will need these access tokens. You can use a library like python-oauth2 to help you with this (there are others so you can read around and decide which you'd like to use). Creating and understanding how to make http requests is beyond the scope of this answer. I'd suggest you have a look around on the internet for some explanations and try again, if you have get stuck please ask another question. Otherwise it'll probably be easier to save the file from your browser...But I'll leave this answer here for the next person who runs into the same problem.
I have essentially been using this code to load an image into Google Drive and then transferring that image over to Google Slides using Python and for some reason it stopped working today.
The code I based mine off of is located here:
http://wescpy.blogspot.com/2016/11/using-google-slides-api-with-python.html
However, today I reran it and am getting an error:
googleapiclient.errors.HttpError: https://slides.googleapis.com/v1/presentations/PRESENTATION_ID returned "Invalid requests[0].createImage: Access to the provided image was forbidden.">
I am wondering if anything have changed in Google API?
Are you getting the same error today 2020/3/6?
<HttpError 400 when requesting https://slides.googleapis.com/v1/presentations/6-7HI:batchUpdate?fields=&alt=json returned "Invalid requests[24].createImage: Access to the provided image was forbidden.">
The error happens every time I am trying to push any image stored in Google Slides using either createImage or replaceAllShapesWithImage.
Note that the URLs pointing at Google Drive content are related to Public content. Thus, the workaround above mentioned by #miladio is not useful at this time.
I ran into the same issue. You should check out this link, which describes changes to the Drive API: Upcoming changes to the Google Drive API and Google Picker API
The proposed solution here seems feasible, although I have not fully tested it myself: Google script replaceAllShapesWithImage with image from drive doesn"t work any more
I am trying to get data from a website into a table in Excel. I am just using the regular button (get data - from web) in Excel (No code) Works fine for two websites but for a different website I am getting the following error:
Details: "The remote server return an HTTP status code '404' when trying to access 'https://smarkets.com/listing/sport/football/premier-league-2017-2018'."
The webpage certainly exists - I am guessing this is a deliberate strategy by the website to prevent data harvesting.
Anyone have any idea how I can get round it either through the get data route or a VBA approach?
Thanks
JL
I inspected traffic with Fiddler and Postman to no avail and in the end contacted the team direct for an answer.
The short answer, from their API team, is no.
Eventually our API, which may be suitable for your needs, will be
available to everyone.
API is in closed alpha stage as I mentioned in comments. More information here: API feed.
API/Odds Feed We're currently working on a new streaming API that is
faster and more scalable. The API is currently in a closed alpha
stage. Unfortunately there is no timeframe on when we'll be able to
release it to the public.
We will prioritise market makers when issuing streaming API accounts.
If you would like to gain alpha access to this service, you can apply
by outlining your proposal here
You can gain access to their XML feed with odds.smarkets.com/oddsfeed.xml .
The feed is updated every few seconds but the information is delayed
by 30 seconds.
I realise their are numerous questions regarding this issue and I have read them all, but I still cannot get this to work!
I have:
Created my project in the API console
Enabled Places API in services
Created a new IOS API Key (repeated this step twice now)
Tried the request with sensor=true, sensor=false and no sensor param at all
Tried HTTP and HTTPS
Those are all the fixes I found within the existing questions regarding this issue, have I missed anything? Here is a sample URL I am using to test:
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/textsearch/json?sensor=true&query=Test%20sd&key=MYKEY
And yes, I am replacing 'MYKEY' with my actual API key :).
I am developing an IOS app using monotouch but I don't really see how that is relevant as I can't get this to work in the browser either.
Any help would be hugely appreciated! Been stuck on this all day now.
I believe you want to be using your "Simple API Access" key (not an Android/iOS key). The documentation mentions this as the last step.
https://developers.google.com/places/documentation/#Authentication
I tried your sample URL with my Simple API Access key and it was successful.