Automated the google forms to pdf generation process. Using pdflatex command (external program).

Only the download automation has to be done. > look at FileSystemWatcher for automatically detecting downloads

Proostenkrant.NET/GoogleFormsReader.cs

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+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Diagnostics;
+using System.IO;
+using System.Linq;
+using System.Net.Http;
+using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
+
+namespace Proostenkrant.NET
+{
+
+    internal static class GoogleFormsReader
+    {
+        const string tsvDataUrl = "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRfxfdT8f4MQjXWmZylnXCGl14T0x5mxNw3W1Xd8GrZfPivjcqRGIvmb2YoAf77M00PrGPSJ6Zo-hRs/pub?output=tsv";
+        const string downloadURL = "https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=FILEID";
+        public static string[][] GetData()
+        {
+            var tsvData = GetTsvData();
+            var data = ConvertData(tsvData);
+            var imageNames = LoadImages(data);
+
+            return data.Select((v, i) =>
+            {
+                v[5] = imageNames[i];
+                return v;
+            }).ToArray();
+        }
+
+        static string GetTsvData()
+        {
+            var client = new HttpClient();
+            var downloadTsvTask = client.GetStringAsync(tsvDataUrl);
+            downloadTsvTask.Wait();
+            return downloadTsvTask.Result;
+        }
+
+        static string[][] ConvertData(string tsvData)
+        {
+            // Split rows
+            var tsvRows = tsvData.Split('\r').Where(v => v.Length > 0);
+            // Split values
+            var rows = tsvRows.Select(r => r.Split('\t').Where(v => v.Length > 0));
+            // Remove header rows
+            rows = rows.ToList().GetRange(2, rows.Count() - 2);
+
+            return rows.Select(r => r.ToArray()).ToArray();
+        }
+
+        static string[] LoadImages(string[][] data)
+        {
+            var names = new List<string>();
+
+            foreach (var row in data)
+            {
+                var name = Regex.Replace(row[2], string.Concat(Path.GetInvalidFileNameChars()), string.Empty, RegexOptions.Compiled);
+                name = name.Replace(":", "");
+                names.Add(name);
+
+                var filename = Program.c_articleImagesPath + $"/{name}.jpg";
+                if (File.Exists(filename)) continue;
+
+                var id = row[5].Replace("https://drive.google.com/open?id=", string.Empty);
+                var url = downloadURL.Replace("FILEID", id);
+
+                Console.WriteLine("Downloading images using the browser...");
+                var process = Process.Start(url);
+                process.WaitForExit();
+
+                Console.Write("Drag image here : ");
+                var path = Console.ReadLine().Trim('\"');
+                File.Copy(path, filename);
+            }
+            return names.ToArray();
+        }
+    }
+}