Google Data API

The Google Documents List API now looks redundant with the Google Drive API’s, with the Drive API being a super-set of the Documents List API, because it is intended to handle a great many more data-types. However, I don’t see anything in the Drive API that would obsolete the Data API, because gdata is intended to manipulate the [...]

No. Sometimes you have to use both to accomplish what you need. The Documents List API lets you manipulate the name of Google Docs and other files and carry out such actions as copying and deleting entire files. You are working on the file as if in a terminal program or windowing file manager. The [...]

Nope. There are two distinct API controls for Google Spreadsheets: the JavaScript-based one through Google App Scripts (the one you see from inside spreadsheets), and the server-based Google Data API (or gdata for short). The gdata API doesn’t provide for spreadsheet formatting. They say it’s a philosophical split between the two groups: front-end vs. back-end work, with [...]