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Re: Net::Google::DataAPI on MacOS Catalina
by syphilis (Archbishop) on Dec 17, 2020 at 00:16 UTC
    Result: FAIL

    Just to point out that you can always force the installation with, for example, cpan -fi Net::Google::DataAPI
    The absence of the {hd} key might not matter for your usage ... or, then again, it might.
    I would certainly give it a try, though I stop short of recommending that others do the same.

    Cheers,
    Rob
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Re: Net::Google::DataAPI on MacOS Catalina
by haukex (Archbishop) on Dec 16, 2020 at 20:29 UTC

    Net::Google::DataAPI was last updated in 2014, and the testers matrix doesn't look good, especially on recent versions of Perl. Unfortunately I'm having trouble accessing the CPAN Testers reports at the moment, but it seems like you've run into Bug #124866. Unfortunately the GitHub repo hasn't really seen activity either. If it were me, I would stay away from this module as web APIs tend to evolve relatively rapidly and unfortunately an unmaintained module is unlikely to be very helpful. In fact, as far as I can tell, most GData APIs have shut down anyway. What are you trying to access? Maybe someone can suggest a better module.

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Re: Net::Google::DataAPI on MacOS Catalina
by hippo (Archbishop) on Dec 16, 2020 at 20:24 UTC

    Looks like this bug to me. There's no response from the author and no releases since 2014. Do you really need to use this module?

    🦛

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      Well - I really want to be able to parse / retrieve data from a Google Sheet - and Net::Google::Spreadsheets seemed like the way to go - but it depends on Net::Google::DataAPI...

      I'm open to alternative suggestions for ways to programmatically get at the data within the Google Sheet - are there any modules that you would recommend as being up to the job?

      I've used things like Spreadsheet::ParseExcel and Spreadsheet::ParseXLSX before, but I don't think either would work in this case..

      Hmm - I just noticed Google::RestApi::SheetsApi4 (didn't see that before for some reason) - has anyone successfully used that for accessing Google Sheets - recently? (checking it out now...)

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      This looks more promising - now I have to figure out how to get the authorization credentials and such to use it - kind of confusing to me, but hopefully I'll figure it out.

      If anyone has experience with these modules - feel free to send me a life-line ;-)

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Re: Net::Google::DataAPI on MacOS Catalina
by trwww (Priest) on Dec 17, 2020 at 22:17 UTC

    I've been using Google::RestApi with success to read in google spreadsheets.

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