In previous posts I covered a couple of conversions of Excel VBA projects to Google Apps Script, with particular emphasis on maintaining compatibility between the solutions to allow for dual maintenance. Previous conversions have been a GAS Color Ramp and a GAS roadmapper.
This latest migration makes a GAS version of the Excel Rest library, This allows you to store a list of useful REST queries, and execute them to populate a worksheet both in Excel and Google Spreadsheets
Queries are very simply added – Here are a couple of examples. Included in the code are a whole bunch of GAS hacks which mimic VBA behavior to make these kind of conversions simple.
This is a simple geoCoding query using Yahoo geocoding rest API.
GAS version
function testYahooGeocode() {
generalDataSetQuery (“geocoding”, “yahoo geocode”, “input address”);
}
VBA version
Public Sub testYahooGeocode()
generalDataSetQuery “geocoding”, “yahoo geocode”, “input address”
End Sub
Here’s another – an interactive query on the iTunes Database
GAS version
function testItunesMovie() {
generalQuery (“itunesmovie”, “itunes movie”,
InputBox(“Enter your itunes movie search query (eg. artist name)”));
}
VBA version
Public Sub testItunesMovie()
generalQuery “itunesmovie”, “itunes movie”, _
InputBox(prompt:=”Enter your itunes movie search query (eg. artist name)”, _
Title:=”itunes API query:results to the itunesmovie worksheet”)
End Sub
For more information and to download the VBA and GAS versions, see the ramblings site.
This is the first time I've heard about GAS, it looks like javascript, doesn't it?
Yep – it is essentially a captive javaScript. Here's the documentation
https://developers.google.com/apps-script/
Bruce