Hi, I am trying to import googleapis
into ObservableHQ but have not had any luck - after trying the usual tools to diagnose. I see a window.GoogleApis to attach to (best looking candidate) but it does not appear to be a useable function f(options). From what I can see the examples have all tried to avoid importing this (using raw REST instead) - is it doable - if so is there an example I can look at?
The googleapis
package is Google’s API client for Node.js, so it’s doubtful that it’ll ever work in a browser. You probably want to use Google’s API client for JavaScript instead.
That client is (oddly) not open-source and not published to npm or versioned; it’s only available here:
https://apis.google.com/js/api.js
It uses the global export pattern, and in addition, it requires that you call gapi.load(callback)
before you can use the library. So here’s how:
gapi = {
const gapi = await require("https://apis.google.com/js/api.js").catch(() => window.gapi);
await new Promise((callback, onerror) => gapi.load("client", {callback, onerror}));
return gapi;
}
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