Docs convert gdoc md

Skill opendatahub-io/docs-skills/skills/docs-convert-gdoc-md

Read a Google Docs document, Google Slides presentation, or Google Sheets spreadsheet and output as Markdown or CSV. Use this skill when asked to read, fetch, import, or convert a Google Doc, Google Slides, or Google Sheets URL.From its SKILL.md

Install

npx -y skills add opendatahub-io/docs-skills --skill docs-convert-gdoc-md

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Convert Google Docs, Slides, or Sheets

Export Google content using gcloud CLI or Google Application Default Credentials for authentication:

Google Docs → Markdown (.md)
Google Slides → Markdown (.md) via PPTX with slide titles, bullet points, tables, and speaker notes
Google Sheets → CSV (.csv)

Prerequisites

The Red Hat Docs Agent Tools marketplace is installed
Authentication — one of:
- gcloud CLI installed and authenticated via gcloud auth login --enable-gdrive-access
- Google Application Default Credentials (ADC) — set GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS to a service-account JSON path, run gcloud auth application-default login, or use attached workload/metadata credentials
python-pptx is installed for Slides export (python3 -m pip install python-pptx)

Instructions

The user provides a Google Docs, Slides, or Sheets URL.
Run the conversion script with the URL as the argument.
Read the output file and present the content to the user.

Run the script

The script is at ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/gdoc2md.py.

Always quote the URL and output file arguments:

uv run --script ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/gdoc2md.py [--comments] [--include-resolved] "<url>" ["<output_file>"]

The script auto-detects the URL type:
- /document/d/ → Google Docs → Markdown
- /presentation/d/ → Google Slides → Markdown (via PPTX)
- /spreadsheets/d/ → Google Sheets → CSV
If no output file is specified, it defaults to <id>.md or <id>.csv.

Include Google Docs comments

Use --comments to pull comment threads from the document and insert them as Markdown footnotes:

uv run --script ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/gdoc2md.py --comments "<google-doc-url>"

Each comment with a highlighted text anchor becomes a footnote reference placed after the quoted text in the Markdown body.
Comments without an anchor appear as footnotes at the end.
Reply threads are included under the parent comment.
By default, resolved comment threads are excluded. Add --include-resolved to include them.
The --comments flag only applies to Google Docs. The script ignores it for Slides and Sheets.

Error handling

401: Authentication expired or invalid. Tell the user to run gcloud auth login --enable-gdrive-access.
Credential errors: Malformed JSON, missing ADC, or refresh failures are caught and reported. Verify the credentials are configured per Prerequisites.
403: No permission. The user needs access to the document.
404: Wrong URL or the document doesn't exist.
No authentication method available: Neither gcloud nor ADC is configured. Tell the user to set up one of the methods described in Prerequisites.
ImportError: python-pptx not installed. Tell the user to run python3 -m pip install python-pptx.