我正在寻找一种在谷歌驱动器文件中批量查找/替换超链接的方法

Question

Im currently performing a migration of data from Box to Google drive. Most of these files contain links that reference, and then take the user to, other files within the box drive.

However, when i do eventually migrate the files to google drive, the old links will break and become obsolete as the previous location in Box will no longer exist.

Writing a find/replace script that updates the strings wont work as although the string changes the URL_link attached to it stays the same, does anybody have any suggestions? I can't seem to find anything about this in the google API.

I had the idea of breaking the link, updating the string, and then making it a link again. But once again, i can't seem to find how to create a link from a string in the API.

Any help would be really appreciated, thanks

Answer 1

Solution / Workaround

You can automate this using the Google APIs. These are the following steps I would follow to achieve what you are aiming for here:

1. Migrate the files to Google Drive (this will convert your documents into Google Doc files that then you can access with the Gooogle Docs API. Do this by specifying the MIME type in the metadata when doing the migration. Here you can see how to specify this and upload using the Google Drive API.
2. Once you have all your desired files uploaded to Drive as docs, you will get their body and look for the links in order to replace them. You can access the links by accessing the body element inside the document element, for more information with regards to this check this link and explore the nested objects. Perform a find replace on the body to change the URL of the document.

If you have issues regarding the change of attached links as you mentioned in your question, check out this other Stack Overflow answer that addresses this problems.

3. Change the link by updating the document following the instructions stated in the above Stack Overflow Question and the documentation .

I hope this has helped you. Let me know if you need anything else or if you did not understood something. :)