Google Docs API Tool

[BaharChidem]

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Feature request

We propose integrating the Google Docs API into LangChain enabling users to:

• Create new Google Docs directly within LangChain workflows
• Edit and update existing documents, such as appending and inserting and formatting content
• Retrieve document content, allowing agents to summarize, process and analyze text

Motivation

The ability to interact with Google Docs directly from LangChain would be a powerful tool for users who frequently work with documents for note-taking, assignments, or collaborative writing. While LangChain can interact with various APIs, it lacks integration with a full-fledged document processing tool like Google Docs. Integrating the Google Docs API would allow LangChain agents to manage documents programmatically, offering automation for creating, viewing and formatting documents. Users will have the ability to take notes on existing or new documents and summarize content from existing Google Docs, making LangChain a more comprehensive and productive platform. This would enable LangChain to act as a smart assistant by automating tasks for document management.

Proposal (If applicable)

We plan to develop a toolkit that interfaces with the Google Docs API, enabling LangChain agents to create new documents, update existing ones with text and formatting, and retrieve document content for further analysis.

We anticipate making the following additions to the codebase:

1. libs/community/langchain_community/tools/google_docs for the toolkit
2. libs/community/langchain_community/utilities/google_docs.py for the API wrapper
3. libs/langchain/langchain/tools/google_docs for the toolkit
4. libs/langchain/langchain/utilities/google_docs.py for the API wrapper

We also anticipate modifying the following files:

1. libs/community/langchain_community/tools/__init__.py to register the tool
2. libs/community/langchain_community/utilities/__init__.py to register the tool

We are a team of three students from the University of Toronto aiming to develop this feature and submit a pull request by mid-November. This integration will provide LangChain users with a powerful tool for automating document creation and management within their workflows.