- HTTP request
- Path parameters
- Query parameters
- Request body
- Response body
- Authorization scopes
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Gets the latest version of the specified document.
HTTP request
GET https://docs.googleapis.com/v1/documents/{documentId}
The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax.
Path parameters
| Parameters | |
|---|---|
documentId
|
The ID of the document to retrieve. |
Query parameters
suggestionsViewMode
enum (
SuggestionsViewMode
)
The suggestions view mode to apply to the document. This allows viewing the document with all suggestions inline, accepted or rejected. If one is not specified, DEFAULT_FOR_CURRENT_ACCESS
is used.
includeTabsContent
boolean
Whether to populate the Document.tabs
field instead of the text content fields like body
and documentStyle
on Document
.
-
When
True: Document content populates in theDocument.tabsfield instead of the text content fields inDocument. -
When
False: The content of the document's first tab populates the content fields inDocumentexcludingDocument.tabs. If a document has only one tab, then that tab is used to populate the document content.Document.tabswill be empty.
Request body
The request body must be empty.
Response body
If successful, the response body contains an instance of Document
.
Authorization scopes
Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:
-
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/documents -
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/documents.readonly -
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive -
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.readonly -
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file
For more information, see the Authorization guide .

