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Embedded File Viewer: Google Drive, OneDrive

Office Web Apps Viewer

('.ppt' '.pptx' '.doc', '.docx', '.xls', '.xlsx')

http://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=[OFFICE_FILE_URL]

<iframe src='https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/embed.aspx?src=[OFFICE_FILE_URL]' width='px' height='px' frameborder='0'>
</iframe>

OneDrive Embed Links

Powerpoint

<iframe src="https://onedrive.live.com/embed?cid=CA582F2BC3AD1590&resid=CA582F2BC3AD1590%2133463&authkey=AFh1O3tkDLAQzzw&em=2" width="402" height="327" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>

Excel

<iframe src="https://onedrive.live.com/embed?cid=CA582F2BC3AD1590&resid=CA582F2BC3AD1590%2136277&authkey=AHJ96YRJIbbJcec&em=2" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" width="800" height="346"></iframe>

Google Docs Viewer

Only files under 25 MB can be previewed with the Google Drive viewer.

Google Drive viewer helps you preview over 16 different file types, listed below:

  • Image files (.JPEG, .PNG, .GIF, .TIFF, .BMP)
  • Video files (WebM, .MPEG4, .3GPP, .MOV, .AVI, .MPEGPS, .WMV, .FLV)
  • Text files (.TXT)
  • Markup/Code (.CSS, .HTML, .PHP, .C, .CPP, .H, .HPP, .JS)
  • Microsoft Word (.DOC and .DOCX)
  • Microsoft Excel (.XLS and .XLSX)
  • Microsoft PowerPoint (.PPT and .PPTX)
  • Adobe Portable Document Format (.PDF)
  • Apple Pages (.PAGES)
  • Adobe Illustrator (.AI)
  • Adobe Photoshop (.PSD)
  • Tagged Image File Format (.TIFF)
  • Autodesk AutoCad (.DXF)
  • Scalable Vector Graphics (.SVG)
  • PostScript (.EPS, .PS)
  • TrueType (.TTF)
  • XML Paper Specification (.XPS)
  • Archive file types (.ZIP and .RAR)

Google Docs Viewer (Apps)

https://docs.google.com/a/[DOMINIO]/viewer?url=[FILE_URL]

Google Docs Viewer

https://docs.google.com/a/[DOMINIO]/viewer?url=[FILE_URL]

Google Drive

Sheets

<iframe src="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13R8O15c_sZKZT2QRHom1z2SDA3E1O5chUvROnqHCkwE/pubhtml?widget=true&amp;headers=true" style="width:100%;height:100%;"></iframe>

Embedded File Viewer

Google Docs offers an undocumented feature that lets you embed PDF files and PowerPoint presentations in a web page. The files don't have to be uploaded to Google Docs, but they need to be available online.

Google Drive Viewer: Explicit PDF files

<iframe src="https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf&embedded=true" style="width:600px; height:500px;" frameborder="0"></iframe>
<iframe src="https://drive.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B5ImRpiNhCfGZDVhMGEyYmUtZTdmMy00YWEyLWEyMTQtN2E2YzM3MDg3MTZh&hl=en&pid=explorer&efh=false&a=v&chrome=false&embedded=true" frameborder="0"></iframe>

Google Drive Viewer: Non-PDF files (fileviewer URL)

To view Google Drive docs from fileviewer links, use the file ID as the srcid attribute in the iframe.

The file ID for your PDF (one that is already in Google Drive) can be found in the PDFs web address. When you open a PDF, it’s the garbage-looking piece of the URL (it will be between forward-slashes, “/”).

The file ID is highlighted in yellow.

In this case it’s the 0B3xoQi_oa7_hU2J5S1RQbFdqS3c

Source: http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B5ImRpiNhCfGZDVhMGEyYmUtZTdmMy00YWEyLWEyMTQtN2E2YzM3MDg3MTZh&hl=en&pid=explorer&efh=false&a=v&chrome=false&embedded=true

id: 0B5ImRpiNhCfGZDVhMGEyYmUtZTdmMy00YWEyLWEyMTQtN2E2YzM3MDg3MTZh

Or

Source: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5ImRpiNhCfGZDVhMGEyYmUtZTdmMy00YWEyLWEyMTQtN2E2YzM3MDg3MTZh/view?ddrp=1&hl=en#

id: 0B5ImRpiNhCfGZDVhMGEyYmUtZTdmMy00YWEyLWEyMTQtN2E2YzM3MDg3MTZh

Result:

<iframe src="https://docs.google.com/viewer?srcid=[put your file id here]&pid=explorer&efh=false&a=v&chrome=false&embedded=true" width="580px" height="480px"></iframe>

Resources

Info: http://www.labnol.org/internet/google-docs-viewer-alternative/

@ngekoding
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Lately we are getting a lot of Not Found errors using this:

<iframe src='https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/embed.aspx?src=[OFFICE_FILE_URL]' width='px' height='px' frameborder='0'>
</iframe>

It happens randomly and goes away randomly. Any ideas on what might be the problem?

I just getting the same issue today, as a temporary solution I switching to use the Google Docs Viewer.

@fukemy
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fukemy commented Sep 17, 2024

hi, does it work for localhost file?

@ngekoding
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hi, does it work for localhost file?

You can use this to open a local file, but it must be publicly accessible (e.g. using ngrok).

@fukemy
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fukemy commented Sep 17, 2024

got it, thanks

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