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Looking at the API guide here https://developers.google.com/docs/api/how-tos/images, the banner states that "The image must be publicly accessible using the URL that you provide in this method."
Is there any other way that I can add/inline a non-public image to a Google Doc through the API?For example, if I have an image stored in my Drive, or image byte data that is in the scope of the code.
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asked Sep 10 '25 15:09
As mentioned in other answers, this is currently not possible using the Google Docs API.
However, after having struggled with the Docs API for a couple of days now, I finally have come to the following realizations:
Instead of using the Google Docs API, you can use the Google Drive API to upload HTML content as a Google Doc. This is what it looks like using Node.js:
const response = drive.files.create({
resource: {
name: this.name,
mimeType: 'application/vnd.google-apps.document'
},
media: {
mimeType: 'text/html',
body: '<html><body>... your HTML ...</body></html>'
},
fields: 'id'
});
const documentId = response.data.id;
const documentUrl = `https://docs.google.com/document/d/${documentId}`;
So far, for my use case, this works flawlessly with only some minor drawbacks:
h1-h6) correctly and displays the headers in the outline and table of contents (should you generate one). However, I have yet to figure out how to style the title and subtitle elements for Google Docs to recognize them as such.
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