I want my Google Drive to read not only id but also url,
How do you do that?
I would appreciate clear responses.
Thanks Phineas
Welcome to the Make community!
What do you mean by “read (url)”?
Fro example, the Google Drive “search” and “watch” modules does return
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You can use a Text Parser “Match Pattern” module with this regular expression pattern to get the documentId from the Google Drive URL.
d\/(?<documentId>[^/]+)
Regex test: https://regex101.com/r/EukUM5/1
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For more information, see Text Parser in the Make Help Center:
Match Pattern
The Match pattern module enables you to find and extract string elements matching a search pattern from a given text. The search pattern is a regular expression (aka regex or regexp), which is a sequence of characters in which each character is either a metacharacter, having a special meaning, or a regular character that has a literal meaning.
- The complete list of metacharacters can be found on the MDN web docs website.
- For a tutorial on how to create regular expressions, we recommend the RegexOne website.
- For an easy, quick regex generator, try the Regular Expressions generator.
- For experimenting with regular expressions, we recommend the regular expressions 101 website. Just make sure to tick the ECMAScript (JavaScript) FLAVOR in the left panel.
Hope this helps!