Scraping Google docs (can't use API)

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Published on 2010-05-29T14:49:18Z Indexed on 2010/05/29 14:52 UTC
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I'm building an iPhone app which needs a peice of meta data from a user's Google Spreadsheet. Unfortunately the meta data I need is not exposed by the API, so I will need to scrape it from the document's HTML source (it would not be present in any of the exported variants).

Is there anyway to include authentication parameters in a call such as:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=abc123&username=...&password=...

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