This might be useful if you are using Midnight Commander (mc) (http://www.midnight-commander.org) and Insync (http://insynchq.com) or possible some other Google Drive syncthing. Will open at least some Google file types in your default browser after parsing the url from the json in the placeholder file.

mc_insync_gdoc_opener

# ~/.config/mc/mc.ext
# This might be useful if you are using Midnight Commander (mc) (http://www.midnight-commander.org)
# and Insync (http://insynchq.com) or possible some other Google Drive syncthing.
# Will open at least some Google file types in your default browser after parsing the url
# from the json in the placeholder file. The mc extension file can usually be found
# at ~/.config/mc/mc.ext or edited via mc itself (F9 » Command » Edit extension file).
# I add the below to the Document section (### Documents ###).


# Google Online File Formats
# This version requires jq to be installed
# Available via apt/yum/brew/etc
# http://stedolan.github.io/jq/download/
shell/i/.gddoc
    Include=google_opener

shell/i/.gdsheet
    Include=google_opener

include/google_opener
    Open=(jq '.url' %f | xargs x-www-browser)