Can't copy a Google Doc using Google Docs API (no 'copy' attribute)

Question

I can't seem to copy a doc from Google Docs but I can edit a doc I have already created and I can create a blank document. With the code below, I get AttributeError: 'Resource' object has no attribute 'copy'. Can anyone offer some insight? The copy code is found here: https://developers.google.com/docs/api/how-tos/documents and the starter code is found here: https://developers.google.com/docs/api/quickstart/python.

from __future__ import print_function
import pickle
import os.path
from googleapiclient.discovery import build
from google_auth_oauthlib.flow import InstalledAppFlow
from google.auth.transport.requests import Request

# If modifying these scopes, delete the file token.pickle.
SCOPES = ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/documents', 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file']

# The ID of a sample document.
document_id = f'{sample_document_ID}'

def main():
    """Shows basic usage of the Docs API.
    Prints the title of a sample document.
    """
    creds = None
    # The file token.pickle stores the user's access and refresh tokens, and is
    # created automatically when the authorization flow completes for the first
    # time.
    if os.path.exists('token.pickle'):
        with open('token.pickle', 'rb') as token:
            creds = pickle.load(token)
    # If there are no (valid) credentials available, let the user log in.
    if not creds or not creds.valid:
        if creds and creds.expired and creds.refresh_token:
            creds.refresh(Request())
        else:
            flow = InstalledAppFlow.from_client_secrets_file(
                'googleDocsCredentials.json', SCOPES)
            creds = flow.run_local_server(port=0)
        # Save the credentials for the next run
        with open('token.pickle', 'wb') as token:
            pickle.dump(creds, token)

    service = build('docs', 'v1', credentials=creds)


    copy_title = 'Copy Title'
    body = {
        'name': copy_title
    }
    drive_response = service.documents().copy(
        fileId=document_id, body=body).execute()
    document_copy_id = drive_response.get('id')

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Tanaike Tanaike · Accepted Answer · 2020-05-18T21:47:33

How about this answer?

Modification points:

In order to copy the Google Docs file, it is required to use files().copy method of Drive API. Ref I think that the reason of your issue is this.

By this, your script can be modified as follows.

Modified script:

service = build('docs', 'v1', credentials=creds)


copy_title = 'Copy Title'
body = {
    'name': copy_title
}
drive_response = service.documents().copy(
    fileId=document_id, body=body).execute()
document_copy_id = drive_response.get('id')

service = build('drive', 'v3', credentials=creds)  # Modified

document_id = '###'  # Please set the Document ID.
copy_title = 'Copy Title'
body = {
    'name': copy_title
}
drive_response = service.files().copy(   # Modified
    fileId=document_id, body=body).execute()
document_copy_id = drive_response.get('id')
print(document_copy_id)

Note:

In your case, the scope of https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file is used. If an error of File not found occurs when you run the script and even when the Google Document is put in your Google Drive, please modify https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file to https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive, and delete the file of token.pickle. And the, please reauthorize the scopes again. By this, new scopes can be used.

Reference:

Copying an existing document