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I'm looking for a way to create Google Drawings via API: create/draw shapes/export etc. Is there a Google API for this?

All I find are references to Google Maps drawing and a forum post which talks about the Drive API. Besides that, I can't find anything about the Drawing app.

Does anybody have any idea?

Sasha O
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setcookie
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  • Can you give us a concrete example? What do you want to draw? And why on Google Maps? does the drawing have a fixed number of pixels, or a fixed size in kilometers, so it grows or shrinks when the client zooms? – Emmanuel Delay Jan 23 '15 at 09:32
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    drawing a simplified website sitemap with shapes and text via an api. and no im not talking about maps! im talking about https://docs.google.com/drawings API – setcookie Jan 23 '15 at 13:16
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    Oops, sorry; I must have come here by mistake, between other Google Maps questions. Sorry – Emmanuel Delay Jan 23 '15 at 16:14

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2015: There's currently no such API.

There's this blog post, which contains obsolete links. And this gdata-issues issue which lies there unnoticed.

Edit 2022: Since I wrote the above, Google has removed Google Draw from Drive tools palette. It is still accessible in Google Docs as a thing to insert. But it is obviously an abandoned project/feature - hard to work with, not supported on Android.

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  • I'm waiting for Google to come out with an app that competes with `graphviz` or `visio`, then they can put out a API. Google draw is probably one of their least used products, doubt they will build an API for it before making the product more useful first. – jason Feb 14 '19 at 14:56
  • Yes, Google Draw is only used in their hiring for design interviews, and it is as painful as it sounds. I suggest to have a look at http://www.Miro.com instead, which is really well done, performant even on Android, and they are progressing with the API. – Ondra Žižka Aug 03 '22 at 18:00