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SpreadAPI: add REST API to any spreadsheet in Google Sheets

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SpreadAPI

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SpreadAPI is a free Google Apps Script that allows you to add REST API to any spreadsheet in Google Sheets in a few minutes. The API can be accessed over HTTPS from back-end as well as front-end apps.

It’s currently possible to publish a Google Sheet as JSON to get the data in a third-party application, but it’s harder to allow for posting new data back to that sheet. SpreadAPI is a script that creates a full-function REST API for a Google Sheet. Each implementation is set up individually and provides multiple authentication methods for specific users or even anonymous users.

Source: spreadapi.com

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Stripe payment code integrated into Google Apps Script

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Stripe Payment Example

Regular Google Apps Script community contributor Alan Wells has provided example Apps Script code with different examples of Stripe payment integration.

Source: Stripe payment system – client version v3 – Apps Script integration 

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Unit Testing in GAS Part 4: Error Handling | ohhey[blog]

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Up until now, our Calcs class has handled errors with simple true and false flags. That’s not helpful to the user. At this point, we’re ready to begin defining and testing custom errors in our functions.

QUnit allows a throws method which can check for errors in your application. This tutorial post adds some error checking to a simple Apps Script project.

Source: Unit Testing in GAS Part 4: Error Handling | ohhey[blog]

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Get weekday name from a date

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Take a date and extract the day of the week from it. By making use of ‘formatDate’ and the pattern ‘EEEE’ within a few lines of code we have a workable week-day name that could be used in an if statement as discussed in the previous post.

Source: The Gift of Script: Get weekday name from a date – alternative

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Copy template sheet to Google Sheets and reorder

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Template sheet with signatures to copy to other files

Screenshot of template sheet with signatures to copy to other files

Take a template Google Sheet (containing fields for 3 signatures) and copy it into other Google Sheet files within a given Google Drive folder and then reorder those sheets so that it was the first one.

The idea was based around needing users to authorise student marks with their signature from multiple Google Sheet reports produced from a third party system.

Source: The Gift of Script: Copy template sheet to Google Sheets and reorder

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Dynamically remove Google Form options

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Screenshot of Google Form appointment slots
Google Form appointment slots

This was developed as I wanted to learn about removing Google Form option choices as part of exploring its capabilities for use with appointment slots. I am aware there are a number of Google add-ons that achieve this but they come with potential data protection issues when accessing your Google Account, hence an in-house approach.

The principle is simply that a user would select their desired appointment slot on the Form and then that option would be unavailable for the next user accessing the Form.

Source: The Gift of Script: Dynamically remove Google Form options

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Batch get existing Google Drive folder IDs & names

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Get the folder IDs of a large number of current Google drive folders along with parts of their name – for capturing in a Google Sheet.

Source: The Gift of Script: Batch get existing folder IDs & names – version 2.0

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Fixing dates from a Google Form

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For those getting a ‘date’ from a Google Form and finding that it flips the day/month the wrong way around. This small piece of code can be inserted to create a correct date format.

Source: The Gift of Script: Fixing dates from a Google Form

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Unit Testing GAS Part 3: Adding and Testing Functions | ohhey[blog]

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We’ve looked at how to install and configure QUnit and just finished writing some simple tests. In this post, we’re going to write a new method, add(a, b) in Calcs which will add the two passed parameters.

Part 3 in the unit testing series, this post looks at writing tests for new methods and some considerations for when (or when not) to use private functions in Javascript when it comes to testing.

Source: Unit Testing GAS Part 3: Adding and Testing Functions | ohhey[blog]

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Unit Testing GAS Part 2: Simple Tests | ohhey[blog]

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Unit tests are for single units of code. They test a specific function for a specific result…

Part two in a series on unit testing, this configures the QUnit web application and has you write simple tests against an Apps Script class.

Source: Unit Testing GAS Part 2: Simple Tests | ohhey[blog]

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