Extension:GoogleDocCreator

MediaWiki extensions manual

File:OOjs UI icon advanced-invert.svg GoogleDocCreator Release status: stable
Implementation	Tag
Description	Creates a Google Doc in your Drive and embeds it to a wiki page
Author(s)	Nischay Nahata,Sanjay Thiyagarajan
Latest version	2.0 (2021-12-30)
MediaWiki	1.35+
Database changes	No
Composer	mediawiki/google-doc-creator
License	GNU General Public License 2.0 or later
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Parameters $wgGoogleApiClientCredentialsPath
Hooks used ParserFirstCallInit
Quarterly downloads
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The GoogleDocCreator extension lets you create and insert a Google Docs into any wiki page.

Download

You can download the GoogleDocCreator code, in .zip format: https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-GoogleDocCreator/archive/2.0.zip

You can also download the code directly via Git from the MediaWiki source code repository (see available tags). From a command line in the extensions directory, run the following:

git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/GoogleDocCreator

To view the code online, including version history for each file, go here: view GoogleDocCreator code

Installation

To install the extension, place the entire 'GoogleDocCreator' directory within your MediaWiki 'extensions' directory, then do the following line steps:

• Download API credentials from https://developers.google.com/drive/api/v3/quickstart/php
• Place the resulting credentials.json file directly in the /GoogleDocCreator directory.
• Add the following to your 'LocalSettings.php' file:

wfLoadExtension( 'GoogleDocCreator' );
$wgGoogleApiClientCredentialsPath = "$IP/extensions/GoogleDocCreator/credentials.json";

• Run "composer update" in your main MediaWiki folder.

Use

Go to Special:GoogleDocCreator to use this extension.

Version history

• 1.0 - August 8, 2018 - Initial version
• 2.0 - December 30, 2021 - Dependence on GoogleDocTag extension removed; support for MW 1.29-1.34 removed; support for MW 1.35+ improved