# Google docs onebox gem requires a "published" document

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [September 23, 2015, 4:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-docs-onebox-gem-requires-a-published-document/33649 "2015-09-23T16:42:23Z")\
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This is perfect, except for a minor quibble:

This works: `https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/gibberish/edit`

But this doesn’t: `https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/gibberish`

Both are valid URLs as far as Google Docs is concerned.

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