"write out" only writes first word with Google Drive about assistantcomputercontrol

[AlbertMN]

After some investigation, it seems there is a workaround that you can deploy. This sadly isn't something I can put out as an official applet, as that requires a paid account (which ACC doesn't have... it's expensive...)

How to fix this by making your own applet

1. Sign up for IFTTT platform
2. Make your own Google Drive & Google Assistant applet - follow this guide, and just use Google Assistant instead of Alexa
2.1 The fields in the Google Drive action should be;

• File URL: https://placeholder.com/ (will be replaced shortly)
• File name: computerAction.txt
• Drive folder path: AssistantComputerControl/

3. After adding both the trigger (as Google Assistant) and the action (as Google Drive), click "Add filter code"
4. Paste the following code into the filter text area;

GoogleDrive.uploadFileFromUrlGoogleDrive.setUrl("https://acc.albe.pw/do_action.txt?a=" + encodeURI(GoogleAssistant.voiceTriggerWithOneTextIngredient.TextField));

This will encode the URL and result in the applet working! As said, this has to be done per. user, but it shouldn't take much longer than 5 minutes to do this.

[AlbertMN]

We've got Google Drive to blame for this. The "File URL" field in IFTTT when you use Google Drive doesn't encode the url to be correct before sending the request. You can't send a web request with a space, so when you try to do write_out with Google Drive and tell it to write multiple words, only the first world will be sent through - as you're experiencing.

So sadly the write out action doesn't really work for Google Drive until they (possibly) encode the URL and replace spaces with %20. If you want to help get this fixed, you can tweet at Google Drive and IFTTT on Twitter or try to get in touch with them in another way.

[DanieleR87]

Awesome! I'll try this, thank you!