Setting ACL to "Anyone with the link" via the API

[Andrew Fields]

Is there a way to set the ACL on an Google Docs item to "Anyone with link" using the API?

Users can do it via the web interface.

There is an old forum question here:

http://groups.google.com/group/google-documents-list-api/browse_thread/thread/da7b7d9134ba5acc/415ad4437ba59704

but there seems no way of getting the required key via the API.

[Andrew Fields]

I see there is a Google announcement that "Authkey is going away".

How do we share to "Anyone with the link" in future?

[Dan Lines]

I have this same issue.  I cannot set a document to have the sharing option Anyone with the link.  I also cannot remove the sharing option Anyone with a link.

Has anyone had success with this?


- Dan

[Andrew Fields]

No, I can't remove them either, or create them. The old forum question was not answered.

It seems that the web interface can do things (requireskey JSON) that aren't yet documented or available in the public API outside of Google. 

This is annoying, as most of our users use both our app and the web interface.

Is there anyone from Google who can comment on this:

Is there stuff we can't do via what's described in the protocol guide, that is known inside Google, or have we just not read the manual properly?

-Andrew

[Andrew Fields]

I haven't seen anything - perhaps a Google engineer can tell us how, or even if it is not possible?

[Ivan Lee]

Please see this discussion:

http://groups.google.com/group/google-documents-list-api/browse_thread/thread/c5ea08e7dbff9543/28e21e01442ad830?

[Andrew Fields]

A big "thank you", Ivan. Your trick works.

[L. G.]

Does anyone know how to retrieve the public link for a particular DocumentListEntry , which contains "?authkey=XXX parameter" ? (which could be opened on every web browser without auth)

entry.getDocumentLinl() seems not to work

Thanks you very much !

[Vic Fryzel]

The link is the alternate link + '?authkey=' + key.

-Vic