Google Drive URL tricks you should know

If you wanted to open the file in the Google Drive web viewer, the URL would be:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/DRIVE_FILE_ID/view

Alternatively, you can also read this article to learn more details.

Direct download link for original Google docs

The trick of editing the direct download URL also works for original Google documents. This will be very useful if you want to give users the option to download Google Document as a read-only PDF file or Google Spreadsheet as an Excel XLS file.

Google Docs – Direct Download

Any document in your Google Drive has a URL like:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/DOC_FILE_ID/edit

Replaced /editby /export?format=, adding that the document file format will be saved and your download link will look like this:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/DOC_FILE_ID/export?format=pdf https://docs.google.com/document/d/DOC_FILE_ID/export?format=doc

The above links will download Google documents in Word (.docx) and PDF formats. You can also change to txt, html, odt (OpenDocument) or epub format.

Google Slides – Download Link

Like Google Docs, the URL of presentations in Google Drive has the following format:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/PRESENTATION_ID/edit

The direct download links for Google Slides are slightly different than for Google Docs. Replace /editwith /export/formatwhere format can be pptx to load Google Slides as Microsoft Powerpoint or PDF file.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/PRESENTATION_ID/export/pdf https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/PRESENTATION_ID/export/pptx

Download Google Slides as PNG file

With Google Slides, you can export your entire presentation as a PDF, or you can create links that download the slides as high-resolution PNG files.

All you need to do is add ?pageid=pPAGE_NUMBERin the URL. So if I load the 10th slide as a PNG file, the URL will be:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/FILE_ID/export/png?pageid=p10

Google Sheets – Export Links

Open Google Spreadsheet in Google Drive, set the sheet to Public (or share with Anyone with a link ) and the url should look like:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/SPREADSHEET_ID/edit

The direct download links for Google Sheets are similar to Google Docs, and sheets can be exported as PDF, Excel XLSX, and CSV files.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/FILE_ID/export?format=xlsx https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/FILE_ID/export?format=pdf https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/FILE_ID/export?format=csv

Copy and create any shared Google Drive files of your own

Replace /editwith /copyin the URL of any original Google Drive file, and anyone can click the link to quickly create their own copy of that file in Google Drive.

Link gốc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/FILE_ID/edit Link copy: https://docs.google.com/document/d/FILE_ID/copy

The trick /copyalso works for Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Google Scripts. Add ?copyComments=trueif you want the copied document to include comments from the original document. Set  includeResolvedCommentsOnCopy = falseto ignore duplication of resolved comments and copyCollaborators = falseto not share copied material with original collaborators.

You can also use it for Google Forms, but the form will only be copied to another user’s Google account if the form owner has granted access to the form.

Invite users when copying documents

If you add [email protected]in the copy URL, the Google user who is copying the document will be prompted to share the document with the specific Google account immediately after copying the document.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/FILE_ID/copy?userstoinvite=emailaddres

Google Drawings – Embed as an image

You can export Google Drawings as SVG, PNG, JPEG, or PDF files by changing /edit to  /export/FORMAT.

For example, if the URL of Google Drawing is:

https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/FILE_ID/edit

The direct link to download the drawing in a vector format like SVG or as a PDF file would be:

https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/FILE_ID/export/svg https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/FILE_ID/export/pdf https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/FILE_ID/export/jpg

<p> <img src="https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/FILE_ID/export/png" alt="Google Drawing" /> </p>