Google recently declared the general accessibility of another API for Google Docs that will enable engineers to automate a large number of the tasks that clients ordinarily do physically in the organization’s online office suite. The new API called REST API, has been in engineer watch list since last April’s Google Cloud Next 2018 and is currently accessible to all software developers. It is built on three core ideas – building content management services, bulk document creation, and workflow management.
Utilizing the API, software developers can likewise setup process that control archives, insert, delete, move, merge, and format text, insert inline images and work with lists in addition to other things. Google also notes that the API’s import/export abilities allow you to use Docs for internal content management systems.
All this would take away the pain of filling out forms and bulk documents. So the next time you’re producing invoices, for example an app could automatically fill out product information and numbers.
During a closed preview, Google said that various organizations joined to utilize the new API, including Mailchimp and Netflix, the latter which utilized API to automate a portion of its engineering response process. “Presently the team invests less energy manually making documentation, and more time on other strategic work.” Google added.
Google has offered full APIs for Slides and Sheets since somewhere around 2016, so the present news has likely been bound to happen for some G Suite clients.