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Resume CI/CD with Google Docs and Github Pages

14 Oct 2021

Ever get frustrated by to keep your resume up-to-date on your Github Pages website? Here’s the process/ workflow I came up with to make that process easier using Google Drive and some light automation.

  1. Create a Google Cloud Platform account (if you don’t have one already), and enable the Google Drive API.

  2. Configure the OAuth consent screen for a Desktop application. Also make sure that all of the Google Drive APIs are in scope for this application.

  3. Create an OAuth client ID credential and download the JSON locally to credentials.json.

  4. Create a conda environment with the necessary dependencies by doing

    $ conda env create -n website-ci
$ conda install -n website-ci -c conda-forge \
     google-api-python-client \
     google-auth-httplib2 google-auth-oauthlib

    You should also consider exporting this environment as a yaml (conda env export --name webite-ci > website-ci.conda.yml), so you can easily load it later (conda env create --file website-ci.conda.yml).

    (Note: if you don’t have conda you can install it here.)

  5. Add the following script to scripts/download_document.py:

    from __future__ import print_function
import os.path
   
from googleapiclient.discovery import build
from googleapiclient.http import MediaIoBaseDownload
from google_auth_oauthlib.flow import InstalledAppFlow
from google.auth.transport.requests import Request
from google.oauth2.credentials import Credentials
   
# If modifying these scopes, delete the file token.json.
SCOPES = ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive']
   
# The ID of a document 
DOCUMENT_ID = '195j9eDD3ccgjQRttHhJPymLJUCOUjs-jmwTrekvdjFE' 
   
def main():
    """Downloads document as .pdf"""
    creds = None
    if os.path.exists('token.json'):
        creds = Credentials.from_authorized_user_file('token.json', SCOPES)
        # If there are no (valid) credentials available, let the user log in.
    if not creds or not creds.valid:
        if creds and creds.expired and creds.refresh_token:
            creds.refresh(Request())
        else:
            flow = InstalledAppFlow.from_client_secrets_file(
                'credentials.json', SCOPES)
            creds = flow.run_local_server(port=0)
        # Save the credentials for the next run
        with open('token.json', 'w') as token:
            token.write(creds.to_json())
   
    service = build('drive', 'v3', credentials=creds)
   
    request = service.files().export_media(fileId=DOCUMENT_ID,
                                           mimeType='application/pdf')
    with open('document.pdf', 'wb') as fh:
        downloader = MediaIoBaseDownload(fh, request)
        done = False
        while done is False:
            status, done = downloader.next_chunk()


if __name__ == '__main__':
   main()

    Where the DOCUMENT_ID should point to your resume on Google Drive. (Note: You can find the document ID of any Google Docs document URL, like https://docs.google.com/document/d/<document ID>/). And document.pdf should be the local path to your resume within your Github Pages site.

  6. Then add a make command like this:

    DATETIME=$(shell date)

update:
    python3 scripts/download_document.py
    git add document.pdf
    git commit -m "updated document: $(DATETIME)"
    git push

Now whenever you want to update your resume after making changes, just do make update and those will automatically be reflected on your website resume.

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