I came across Google’s FactCheckTools API today, so I thought it might be fun to add to my bmApiCentral Apps Script library. This API can be used to both search popular fake news claims and […]
Apps Script library to convert between file types, including OCR for image to documents, with a huge repertoire of conversion combinations. […]
Drv is a SuperFetch plugin to access the Google Drive API. SuperFetch is a proxy for UrlFetchApp with additional features – see SuperFetch – a proxy enhancement to Apps Script UrlFetch for how it works […]
Twt is a SuperFetch plugin to easily access to the Twitter v2 API. SuperFetch is a proxy for UrlFetchApp with additional features – see SuperFetch – a proxy enhancement to Apps Script UrlFetch for how […]
There are quite a few exchange rate APIs out there to get the latest and historic exchange rates. Google used to have a nice, simple and free one – the finance API, but that was […]
I used to use Slideshare a fair bit but I’d forgotten all about it until today. I wanted to see what I had there and if anyone was looking at it. I suppose I could […]
The Apps Script team released this post today about integrating BigQuery and sheets. So this means you can use SQL to access any sheets that you’ve linked to bigQuery. You can follow the instructions in […]
If you want to create a file of over 10mb in Drive, you can’t use either the DriveApp service or the Advanced Drive service. Even if you use the JSON API, the restriction of 10mb […]
A question in the Apps Script community prompted me to write this post about file conversion and the nature of files on Drive. If you use the Google Drive client on Windows or Mac, and […]
If you have a fairly large Google Site, and you make mistakes like we all do, at some point you’ll need to do a mass update to all the pages. It happened to me yesterday. […]
In Minimizing maps directionfinder api calls I showed how to make the most of your directions API quota in the context of a spreadsheet. Here’s an example of calling it directly, say when you are […]
If you use the Google APIs, you’ll have been hit with the “service invoked too many times in one day” problem. In Backing off on rate limiting I showed how to deal with rate limited […]
The old UserProperties and ScriptProperties services have been deprecated and replaced by the new PropertiesService. In the old service, a user property was available from all scripts to a particular user, and a script property […]
Using DriveApp service, sometimes you want to specify a folder path like /abc/def/ghi and get the folder object of ‘ghi’. With the old DocsList service this was possible, but it doesn’t exist with the Drive […]
If you want to share files with people that are new to Google Drive there can be some conceptual challenges with the sharing paradigm. When you use Google Docs sharing, you are sharing the document […]
If you are a regular here, you may have noticed that our forum has moved from a google groups forum to a Google+ community. I had never noticed before, but there is a groups service in Apps Script that allows […]
In Instrumenting VBA for Google Analytics and Universal analytics measurement protocol for your GAS libraries I showed how you could us Google Analytics to measure usage of modules and libraries. In db access to a variety of databases from Excel, […]
A little while ago, I did a an article on Instrumenting VBA for Google Analytics, which uses Universal Analytics to track the use of sections of VBA code. One of the things that is missing when […]
When implementing Using the gplus api in Apps Script I noticed that there didn’t seem to be an easy way to just get the the number of plus ones given a URL – but yet […]
I often need to find a bunch of files in a particular folder, and if I also need to get files in subfolders also, it can be a little longwinded. I prefer to deal with […]
There are many references to shared libraries on this site. You can either take a copy of them or use them in place as you wish. I’m always hitting a few problems with a) versions […]
Inserting rows with the Google Apps Script FusionTables service is pretty slow. There are also a bunch of quotas to worry about. Here’s what is says. Note: You can list up to 500 INSERT statements, […]
There are a number of ways to get data into BigQuery but one of the most convenient as far as Apps Script is concerned is to write it straight there from data generated during some […]
Why Sheets Developer Metadata ? With Sheets API developer metadata, you can associate keys and data with a spreadsheet, sheet, row or column. Previously, if you wanted to ‘remember’ some data attribute, let’s say […]
Someone asked in our forum yesterday about Facebook Query Language – FQL. Could we get data straight into Excel from facebook? I dont use facebook, so I haven’t paid much attention to it. I had […]
Lately I’ve been posting about the Google Apps Script Content Service and how to use it as a ‘serverless’ Rest API service. In addition, I covered how to use the ScriptDB as a secure repository for […]
Google currency API Lately for this spot I’ve been selecting APIs that are out of the ordinary, and which allow me to incrementally improve the capability of the REST library. The wrinkle today is that […]
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