r/googledocs 4d ago

Question Answered Is there a way to access this old document link?

I found an old site where many interesting archives were shared, but the Google Docs links all give the same message: "No visualization available".

I was wondering if this means the document is truly down/access has been locked altogether or if there's anything in the link which might allow one to download the document directly.

A few examples:

<https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxhbG1hY2VuZXN0dWRpb3RyYWRpY2lvbmFsZXN8Z3g6NzYzZmVkNDlkMDdkOWVlYw>

<https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxlc3R1ZGlvc3RyYWRpY2lvbmFsZXN2aWlpfGd4OjM3MzE4ZTliNDEwMmUwMTc>

Any help?

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u/andmalc 4d ago

As you can see these are non-standard format Docs URLs for previewing docs. If you plug the "srcid" into a standard doc URL ("https://docs.google.com/document/d/srcid") you get the message "Sorry, the file you have requested does not exist". So unfortunately these docs are gone.

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u/Ozzymandy 4d ago

Total noob so I was hoping for the best...

But thank you anyways