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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

Sending an HTTP/HTTPS request with query string


You can send an HTTP/HTTPS request along with the query string. To do this, append the published URL with your query string.

For example: https://script.google.com/macros/s/AKfycbxa4ErKHiX_0gQ0JUU-Q1qMhvRrOsrx3HXuVZp7pzX8UVxMu4w/exec?fname=John

function doGet(e){
  Logger.log(e);
}

A sample of the logged HTTP/HTTPS request's event object is shown here:

The doGet function listed in the following code snippet shows how you can use the event object to get the required parameters for further processing:

function doGet(e){
  
  // Get the fname value from the query string.
  var firstName = e.parameter.fname;
  
  /*
   *  There is no active spreadsheet, so you should open by id.
   *  Use the id of the spreadsheet in which your script resides.
   *
   */
  var ss = SpreadsheetApp.openById("Replace spreadsheet id");

  var SheetData = ss.getSheetByName("Data");
  
  var data = SheetData.getDataRange().getValues();
  
  // Remove header
  data.shift...