Authentication and Authorization are probably the most confusing aspects of working with APIS. There are so many different options that it’s hard to pick which one to use, and the examples and documentation often refer […]
In Blistering fast file streaming between Drive and Cloud Storage using Cloud Run I showed how you could use Cloud Run to hand off transfers between Drive and Cloud Storage to make them faster and […]
It would be useful to keep a reference guide to all projects and libraries shared on github, and their IDS. If you are using gasgit, then we already have everything needed to make that as […]
If you want to play around with your scripts from within Apps Script, you’ll need to use the drive SDK. Although Drive is available as a Google Apps Script advanced service, the SDK is not – […]
This topic was covered on Totally Unscripted 5 (TU5). You’ll find the Youtube Channel here. Polling I’ve already covered polling for changes in a number of articles such as Watching for server-side changes from the […]
Apps Script (advanced level) posted on 16th Oct 2017 Github pageviews You can get things like number of stars and watchers etc from the GitHub REST API repository data, but pageviews are not tracked there. […]
Format of Info.json Each project directory contains an info file that describes the scripts for this project. It is also used to decide whether the sources in the project need to be refreshed. To force […]
Obsolete This post is now pretty much obsolete. As of April 2016, the dependency service seemed to disappear. Next attempt was via a hacked autocomplete service to discover dependencies, which worked until 2018. Now this […]
In Getting your apps scripts to Github I introduced the idea of using Drive JSON API for apps script to get your source code out of the Apps Script environment as a first step to […]
GasGit Getting your scripts to Github is not the easiest thing in world. Nowadays people mainly do it manually, which is fine for small scripts, but when you have many with lots of library dependencies, […]
GasGit For the past few years, I’ve been using gasGit (any many of you have too Getting your apps scripts to Github) to get all my public stuff to github. I have over 150 Apps Script repos […]
dependencyForce If you use a lot of libraries, sometimes things get a bit messy. You delete an old version to clean up and suddenly notice a few days later that things stop working because it’s […]
In Drive JSON API for apps script I posted about an apps script library to help with the complexities of using the Drive SDK instead of the Apps Script DriveApp service. It needs Oauth2. Recently, the advanced […]
You probably have used the Apps Script DriveApp service. There are examples of this scattered throughout the projects on this site. There is another way to manipulate your Google Drive – an SDK that exposes its APIs to external […]
In Using Drive SDK I described why you might want to use the SDK JSON API rather than the built in Apps Script Drive Class. Before you can start with this you need to authorize your access with OAUTH2, […]
I’ve been messing around with the google Drive API lately, and haven’t really found out how to use it to host images for web sites satisfactorily. That was one of the things that prompted this […]
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