Add google docs action items?

[mozfreddyb]

Google docs has a way to assign comments to specific people which leads to action items floating around and it makes me sad that people try to assign stuff to me.

Mostly, because there is no great overview to see which documents have assigned actions and how many there are. The only thing you can do is go to https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/?tgif=d and scrape it like so

// loop through list of docs
for (let doc of document.querySelectorAll(".docs-homescreen-list-item-title")) {
    // find those that have an action item count
    for (let needsFollowUp of doc.querySelectorAll(".docsshared-action-items-badge-count")) {
        let docTitle = doc.title;
        let amnt = needsFollowUp.textContent;
        let url = ""; //FIXME
        
    }
}```

[Callek]

Note: this won't work for me, as I have 3 google accounts all of which are logged in at once, and 1 of which doesn't even have docs enabled...

[mozfreddyb]

Turns out there is an overview page at https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/search?q=followup:actionitems

The markup is a bit horrible to navigate and I'm somewhat fearful that it might change, but here's how to get the action items with document name + type (sheet, doc, presentation etc.)

let files = $$(".a-u-xb-j.a-Wa-ka")
for (let file of files) {
    // image is slides/sheets/doc logo and has an alt tag
    let typeImg = file.querySelector("img.a-Ua-c");
    // strip off "Google" from "Google Slides" (and docs, sheets etc.)
    let type = "Unknown";
    if (typeImg) {
      type = typeImg.alt.indexOf("Google") == 0 ? typeImg.alt.slice(7) : "Unknown";
    }
    let title = file.querySelector(".l-u-V[aria-label]").getAttribute("aria-label");
    let actions = file.querySelector("div.ocLVN-Y-Sn-og-yc").innerText;
    console.log({actions, type, title});

}```