# URLMinder having trouble with Google Docs links **URL:** \ **Category:** Bugabee\ **Created:** [March 9, 2022, 12:10pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/urlminder-having-trouble-with-google-docs-links/10221 "2022-03-09T12:10:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dehowell](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/dehowell/32/867_2.png) [@dehowell](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/dehowell)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 12:10pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/urlminder-having-trouble-with-google-docs-links/10221/1 "2022-03-09T12:10:44Z")
I just set up a new URLMinder goal, intending to track wordcount in a published Google Doc. I enabled “publish to the web” my Google Doc and copied the published link to my URLMinder goal setup. When I come back to the settings later, it seems like Beeminder has persisted the [“file does not exist” page for Google Docs](https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/export?format=txt) rather than the URL I provided. I have double-checked that my Google Doc URL is publicly readable in a private browser window, so I think there’s a bug in URLMinder here. ---
**Author:** ![shanaqui](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/shanaqui/32/3513_2.png) [@shanaqui](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/shanaqui)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 12:57pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/urlminder-having-trouble-with-google-docs-links/10221/2 "2022-03-09T12:57:56Z")
Eek, okay. Could you email us at [support@beeminder.com](mailto:support@beeminder.com) with the link to the goal in question? That’ll probably be the easiest way for us to dig into this properly! ---
**Author:** ![mufflon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/mufflon/32/2394_2.png) [@mufflon](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/mufflon)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 4:02pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/urlminder-having-trouble-with-google-docs-links/10221/3 "2022-03-09T16:02:03Z")
I have a Google Doc running, where it’s not the “publish to web” functionality that creates a web version, but actually the “Share” button on the top right with “Everyone who has this link”. That one works pretty consistently for me now.