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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

Creating RSS feed using ContentService


You created an RSS reader application in Chapter 6, Creating Feed Reader and Translator Applications. Now, you can create an application to publish an RSS feed. Put the RSS data in a Sheet as shown here:

Also, edit/enter the following doGet function:

function doGet() {
  /*
   *  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([[ this spreadsheet id ]]);
  
  var SheetRss = ss.getSheetByName("RSS Data");

  var rssData = SheetRss.getDataRange().getValues();
  
  // Remove header.
  rssData.shift();
  
  var strRss = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>';
  
  // Root element.
  strRss += '<rss>';
  
  // Open channel element.
  strRss += '<channel>';
  
  // Add description and language elements.
  strRss += '<description>A brief description of the channel</description>';
  strRss += '<language&gt...