Create Visualized Recipe Instructions with Gemini using Google Apps Script

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Create Visualized Recipe Instructions with Gemini using Google Apps Script

Abstract

This report presents a Google Apps Script for generating visualized cooking recipes with text and images using the Gemini API, leveraging its image generation capabilities.

Introduction

Recently, image generation was supported in the Gemini API using Gemini 2.0 Flash Experimental and Imagen 3. I have already reported a simple sample script for generating images using the Gemini API with Google Apps Script. Ref Google Apps Script seamlessly integrates with Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides. In this report, I would like to introduce a script for creating a recipe for cooking a dish, including texts and images, using the Gemini API with Google Apps Script.

Generate Images with Gemini API using Google Apps Script

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Generate Images with Gemini API using Google Apps Script

Description

Recently, image generation was supported in the Gemini API using Gemini 2.0 Flash Experimental and Imagen 3. This report introduces simple sample scripts for generating images using the Gemini API with Google Apps Script. When images can be created using the Gemini API with Google Apps Script, Google Apps Script, which seamlessly integrates with Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides, becomes a powerful tool for creating and managing them, and the applications are infinite.

Workaround: Smart Chips with Google Apps Script

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Description

Now, Google Docs and Google Sheets can insert smart chips. Smart chips are very useful for easily inserting information like users, maps, files, and so on. However, unfortunately, at the current stage, smart chips cannot be directly managed using Google Apps Script. Specifically, the information within smart chips cannot be directly retrieved by Google Apps Script. Although I believe this will be resolved in a future update, there might be cases where you want to retrieve information from smart chips using Google Apps Script. This report introduces a workaround for achieving this.

Technique for Changing Glyph Colors of Bullets in Google Documents Using Google Apps Script

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Technique for Changing Glyph Colors of Bullets in Google Documents Using Google Apps Script

Description

This report introduces a sample script for changing the glyph colors of bullets in lists on Google Documents using Google Apps Script. Currently, there are no built-in methods for achieving this using either the Document service (DocumentApp) or the Docs API. However, this can be accomplished through a specific process. This report will introduce that process using Google Apps Script.

Trend of google-apps-script Tag on Stackoverflow 2025

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Published: March 9, 2025

Kanshi Tanaike

Introduction

On Stack Overflow, numerous users post questions and answers daily across various tags. These discussions, spanning a wide range of topics, provide valuable information and are highly beneficial. One such tag is “google-apps-script,” where I occasionally participate in discussions. Observing these threads over time, it’s evident that they evolve alongside updates to Google Apps Script, the technology at the core of the tag. This report aims to analyze this evolution as a trend within the “google-apps-script” tag. This trend encompasses changes in the number of questions, questioners, answerers, and associated tags. The evolution of the “google-apps-script” tag is closely linked to the development of Google Apps Script and its diverse applications.

Workaround: Export web-published Google Docs as PDFs using Google Apps Script

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Abstract

This report outlines a Google Apps Script solution for directly exporting web-published Google Docs to PDF. By circumventing limitations in published URLs, the script enables convenient PDF generation without manual intervention.

Introduction

Google Sheets and Google Docs offer the convenient feature of web publishing, providing readily accessible URLs for sharing. Ref

  • Google Sheets: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-###/pubhtml
  • Google Docs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-###/pub

These URLs utilize a unique ID (###) for each document. While Google Sheets supports direct PDF export by modifying the URL to https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-###/pub?output=pdf, a similar direct method for Google Docs is currently unavailable.