I’m a great fan of both Redis and GraphQL. You’ll find plenty of articles about them around on this site. Although I’ve showed many examples of GraphQL and Apps Script, it was never possible to connect up Apps Script to Redis, because redis doesn’t use HTTP to communicate between Client and Server. I’ve come across upstash.com (with a free tier), that fronts a redis database with a GraphQL API.
The upstash.com service looks like a nice find from Bruce Mcpherson and his post details how you can use this for cross platform caching.
Redeploying Web Apps without Changing URL of Web Apps for new IDE
A ‘feature’ of the new Google Apps Script editor is managing your script project the deployments. A issue some developers are encountering when updating the published version of their web app is the published url changes. In this gist Kanshi Tanaike describes the problem and highlights how developers can update their published Web App without changing the URL.
This library used to be part of my cUseful collection, but I’ve decided to pull out into a library in it’s own right. The idea is not only to be able to squeeze more into cache by compression, but also to spread across multiple cache entries. In addition, through the use of plugins, it also allows multiple backend cache stores, all accessed the same way, with the option of creating additional ones. This abstraction allows you to switch platforms as you outgrow them without any main code changes.
A tool to schedule weekly time triggers between two dates in Google Apps Script. Grab the code and ready the quick-use guide or stick around for a deep dive.
Nice solution from Scott Donald to setup timed triggers for a fixed period so you don’t have to worry about manually adding/removing.
Manage Google Groups membership expiration with Google Apps Script and Cloud Identity API
As noted by Stéphane Giron Google Group member expiration is not available on all types of Google Workspace accounts, but this post is a useful reminder of what is now possible when it is. The most includes a full explanation and code to get started.
A lot of users try and quickly learn GAS and use it to make their lives easier. It’s all great, however the code we sometimes tend to come across on StackOverflow and other sites lacks best practices, hence I thought it was time to start bringing them up and I will start today with design patterns.
As noted by the post author Dmitry Kostyuk the Google Apps Script V8 runtime opens up many new coding opportunities previously not available to Apps Script developers. Using the common use case, fetching data and writing it to a Google Sheet, Dmitry explains how the façade and proxy code patterns can be used to write efficient easy-to-read code.
If you have a Nest thermostat at home, you can access it from your Google Sheet by using Apps Script to connect to the Smart Device Management API. It means you can do some cool stuff like build a virtual, working Nest thermostat in your Google Sheet
This article will discuss how to manage multiple, container-bound script projects using the Google Apps Script API from within Google Apps Script itself.
Interesting write up of how you can manage container bound Apps Script projects from an Apps Script…
Google Apps Script: WebApp In this tutorial, we will cover how you can get a unique temporary access key from a user accessing your WebApp that lasts for 30 days. Temporary access keys allow you to track users as they use your WebApp over time while still providing anonymity to the user by providing only an access key to that user.
Recently I came across a nice post from Ravgeet Dhillon, which looked at how to Add Unsubscribe link in emails using Google Apps Script. The solution uses a Google Sheet and a Google Apps Script web app to add an unsubscribe link to emails. As I noted when shared via AppsScriptPulse this is a useful addition if your mailing needs comply with PECR or similar electronic communications regulation compliance.
Having recently updated my ‘Create a mail merge using Gmail and Google Sheets’ in the Google Workspace Solution Gallery to handle inline images I thought it would be useful to show how this example can be extended to include a variation on Ravgeet’s post.
