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Learning Google Apps Script

By : Ramalingam Ganapathy
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Learning Google Apps Script

By: Ramalingam Ganapathy

Overview of this book

Google Apps Script is a cloud-based scripting language based on JavaScript to customize and automate Google applications. Apps Script makes it easy to create and publish add-ons in an online store for Google Sheets, Docs, and Forms. It serves as one single platform to build, code, and ultimately share your App on the Web store. This book begins by covering the basics of the Google application platform and goes on to empower you to automate most of the Google applications. You will learn the concepts of creating a menu, sending mails, building interactive web pages, and implementing all these techniques to develop an interactive Web page as a form to submit sheets You will be guided through all these tasks with plenty of screenshots and code snippets that will ensure your success in customizing and automating various Google applications This guide is an invaluable tutorial for beginners who intend to develop the skills to automate and customize Google applications
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Learning Google Apps Script
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Building the Gmail parser application


The parseEmail function is able to check 10 latest inbox threads, extract the from field and body text from unread messages, and put the gathered data in the left-most tab of the Sheet. Create the parseEmail function as listed here:

/** 
 *  Gets content of latest unread message in Gmail inbox
 *    and puts gathered data in left most tab of Sheets.
 *
 */
function parseEmail(){

  // Left most sheet/tab
  var emailSheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet()
      .getSheets()[0];

  // Clear the entire sheet.
  emailSheet.clear();

  // Checks maximum 10 threads
  var thread = GmailApp.getInboxThreads(0,10);

  var row = 1;

  for(var thrd in thread){
    var messages = thread[thrd].getMessages();

    for (var msg in messages) {
      var message = messages[msg];

      if(message && message.isUnread())
      emailSheet.getRange(row,1).setValue(message.getFrom());

      emailSheet.getRange(row++,2)
      .setValue(message.getPlainBody())...