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copied!<p>While <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/documents/docs/3.0/developers_guide_protocol.html#UploadingDocs" rel="noreferrer">the docs</a> call it "uploading", everything boils down to sending an appropriately formatted <code>HTTP POST</code> request, so <em>of course</em> it can actually be a new creation rather than an actual "upload" of an otherwise existing file. (Creation through <code>POST</code> requests is similar to what's normally described as a <code>REST API</code>, though in real <code>REST</code> you'd typically use a <code>PUT</code> request instead of course).</p> <p>You just need to create a blob of data representing your document in any of the formats listed <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/documents/faq.html#WhatKindOfFilesCanIUpload" rel="noreferrer">here</a> -- depending on your programming language, simplest may be <code>text/csv</code> for a spreadsheet and <code>application/rtf</code> for a text-document -- then put in in an appropriately formatted <code>POST</code> data. For example, to make a spreadsheet in the simplest way (no metadata), you could <code>POST</code> something like:</p> <pre><code>POST /feeds/default/private/full HTTP/1.1 Host: docs.google.com GData-Version: 3.0 Authorization: <your authorization header here> Content-Length: 81047 Content-Type: text/csv Slug: Example Spreadsheet ColumnA, ColumnB 23, 45 </code></pre> <p>Each specific programming language for which a dedicated API is supplied may offer help with this not-so-hard task; for example, in Python, per <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/documents/docs/3.0/developers_guide_python.html#UpdatingDocs" rel="noreferrer">the docs</a>, the API recommends using <code>ETags</code> to avoid overwriting changes when multiple clients are simultaneously "uploading" (i.e., creating or updating docs). But preparing the POST directly is always possible, since the almost-REST API is documented as <strong>the</strong> protocol underlying all language-specific APIs.</p>

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