Official Google Doc’s API for .Net, Java and Ruby Released – Downloading those Google Doc’s, and converting them to different formats, is now just an API call away

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“Many of you have been waiting patiently for the ability to download your Google Documents using the Documents List Data API. Today, I am very happy to announce the API's top feature request is finally live.

The undocumented (but widely used) RawDocContents url has been replaced by a more versatile Export servlet. Authenticated applications can now download documents in a number of different formats including pdf, doc, ppt, swf, xls, and more.

Exporting is available to all three authentication methods (ClientLogin, AuthSub, OAuth) and will work for developers using the DocList API with a Google Apps hosted domain.
Lastly, we've got samples!

• Java - an updated DocumentsListDemo.java
• .NET - a new DocListExporter sample
• Ruby on Rails - DocList Manager added to googlecodesamples.com (source coming soon)

For all the details on exporting your documents, see the documentation …” [Page Leach Level: 95%]

Interesting. I wonder if I couldn’t use this to allow easy backing up/sync’ing of Google Doc’s? Kind of a merge between this and Mesh (using the best of both)? Or maybe adding this to my Blogger Backup utility, whereas blog posts are backed up to a Google Doc’s? Or even a cheese file format conversion utility, letting Google do the heavy lifting? Or… or… or… lol