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I've done something similar by grabbing a google doc by url, scraping its html markup, and generating a site from it. Some people have even done a google doc m

• bradgessler 10y ago
  I highly recommend Sheets too for tabular data. The series of /vs pages at (like https://www.polleverywhere.com/vs/turning-technologies https://www.polleverywhere.com/vs/turning-technologies) are all generated from one Google Spreadsheet. You can see the spreadsheet data itself if you click "Download Spreadsheet" and see the tables if you click on any of the subpages. I implemented the "scraping" via a Rake task. When marketing updates a point of comparison, an engineer runs the task which simply downloads a CSV file that is plugged into these pages and a nicely formatted XLXS file that's made available for download for people who want to see all the data in one place. There's "big data". I call this "tiny data".
• j_s 10y ago
  As seen on HN 2 days ago: Show HN: HexoPress – a blog that syncs with your Google Docs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13857137 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13857137