Hyper

Hyper lets you automatically populate Google Docs with data from arbitrary URLs. It comes with GitHub authorization to allow URLs pointing to (private or public) content hosted on GitHub. A working initial use case is using Jupyter notebooks saved to GitHub as data sources.

Installation

The easiest way to install Hyper is here via the Google Docs add-on store. Please reply here to be added as a private tester so that you can install Hyper this way.

Usage

• Choose a URL as a source of data. For example, a Jupyter notebook on GitHub.
• In that source of data (e.g. inside the notebook), use the format {{{<label>:<insert arbitrary text>}}} to identify data to be extracted by the Google Doc. For example, {{{mutations:median 234 (range 100 - 423)}}}.
• Create a hyperlink in your Google Doc with any text and the following URL: <your source of data URL>?hyper=<label>. For example, https://github.com/myorg/myrepo/tree/master/analyses/notebooks/notebook.ipynb?hyper=mutations. Hyper uses the suffix to sift through the data source and grab the relevant piece of data.
• Go to Add-ons -> Hyper -> Hyperize Links in your Google Doc, and watch the text of your hyperlink transform into the data. For example, if using the above hyperlink, into median 234 (range 100 - 423).
• When the data updates, simply Hyperize again.

Screencast

Check out the screencast here.

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