How to get comments from Google Docs using the Google API

Question

I want to get comments from Google Docs using the Google Drive API. Does anyone know if the Google Drive API (or other Google Apps Application APIs) supports retrieve commenting?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Comments are included for documents via download as text (using the DocumentsList API), although it may be difficult to distinguish comments from the regular text.

Comments for spreadsheets are included when the item is downloaded as html (again, using the DocumentsList API), but not included when downloaded in other formats.

Comments for presentations, drawings, and non-Google types are not readily available.

Answer 2

Comments are not available via the API yet, but this is a common feature request that we are already evaluating. Stay tuned for updates soon.