At the highest level, Google Apps Script (GScript for short), is a scripting platform for light-weight development across the entire Google Suite ecosystem. Each GSuite “app” (Sheets, Docs, Calendar, etc…) is referred to as a GScript service. Each service, such as the Google Sheets service we’ll strictly focus on throughout this article, is made up of multiple classes — each with the typical class structure of properties & methods.
You’re likely using Google Sheets already, so why not take a few minutes to learn how to customize & automate it to your particular needs? With Google Script, Google has made it extremely easy for anyone to extend Sheets.
Cloud Firestore is a fast, fully managed, serverless, cloud-native NoSQL document database that simplifies storing, syncing, and querying data for your mobile, web, and IoT apps on a global scale.
In this post, you will learn how to take the data from Google Sheets and store those records in Firestore using Google Apps Script
Macros are small programs that a Google Sheets user can create to complete repetitive tasks. In fact, macros are an excellent way for a user to become familiarized with Apps Script, as a snippet of code is saved in the script editor each time a macro is recorded. Recording a macro is as simple as going to Tools → Macros → Record macro.
Recording macros and assigning shortcuts to them is a great way to execute repetitive tasks and become a more efficient Sheets user. You can also import macros from other workbooks so you can perform the same tasks and assign the same shortcuts across all of your workbooks.
Send personalized text messages to your contacts with the help of Google Sheets and your Android phone. The SMS messages go directly from your phone SIM, no third-party SMS service is required.
Amit Agarwal (@labnol) has highlighted a really interesting model to integrate G Suite with Android mobile apps using Google Apps Script and MIT’s App Inventor. In Amit’s example he illustrates how you can quickly create your own Android app as a proxy for sending SMS messages from a Google Sheet. Given the flexibility of App Inventor this opens up numerous other opportunities to integrate G Suite and your Android phone.
Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night thinking – phawh! I’d really like to know how many words there are in a paragraph – Or stopped mid-chew on some arbitrary item carelessly left in the paddock by the boss and thought – geez! If there was only a way to count the number of sentences in a paragraph in a cell in Google Sheets!?
In this short tutorial, Yagisanatode will show you how to get the total count of words in a cell and the total count of sentences in a cell in Google Sheets. They even have a how-to on getting the average sentence length in a paragraph.
If you are looking for a way to get data that is displayed on a website and save it to a Google Sheet every <some time interval>—because a record number of cmd+x and cmd+v keystrokes aren’t really the stats that resonate with you and your friends—please, read on.
A detailed guide by Kamie Robinson on how to scrape data from a website, tabulate that on a Spreadsheet and a sweet tip to backfill your data!
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) tracker uses sparklines in Google Sheets to help you visualize the spread of the coronavirus outbreak across different states of India over time.
Are you automating Google Sheets using Google Apps Script? Automation is awesome but doing it with the Google tools can be cumbersome.
Interesting article by José Miguel Gutiérrez that provides some amazing tips on how to improve your coding experience while working with Spreadsheets and Google Apps Script.
