Overview

GetEditType is a GAS library for retrieving the edit types of the OnEdit event trigger of Spreadsheet using Google Apps Script (GAS).

Description

In the case that the OnEdit event trigger (simple and installable triggers) is used at Spreadsheet, when users manually edited the cell of Spreadsheet, the trigger is fired. At this time, there is the case that I want to know the edit type. For example, I would like to know about the following edit types.

Gists

This is a sample script for fixing a value putting by a custom function of Spreadsheet using Google Apps Script. When a custom function is used, the value retrieved by the custom function of Spreadsheet is automatically updated by recalculating. So in the case that the value retrieved by the custom function is changed by the time, the value is also changed by automatically updating. In this sample script, I would like to introduce a method for fixing such values.

Gists

This is a sample script for retrieving the values with and without duplicating from JSON object using Google Apps Script. Also this can be used by Javascript.

Sample script

var obj = [
  { key1: "value1a", key2: "value1b" },
  { key1: "value2a", key2: "value2b" },
  { key1: "value5a", key2: "value5b" },
  { key1: "value3a", key2: "value3b" },
  { key1: "value1a", key2: "value1b" },
  { key1: "value4a", key2: "value4b" },
  { key1: "value5a", key2: "value5b" },
  { key1: "value3a", key2: "value3b" }
];

var res = obj.reduce(
  function(obj, e) {
    if (
      obj.withoutDuplicating.some(function(f) {
        return f.key1 === e.key1 && f.key2 === e.key2;
      })
    ) {
      obj.withDuplicating.push(e);
    } else {
      obj.withoutDuplicating.push(e);
    }
    return obj;
  },
  { withoutDuplicating: [], withDuplicating: [] }
);

Logger.log(res);

Result

{
  "withoutDuplicating": [
    {
      "key1": "value1a",
      "key2": "value1b"
    },
    {
      "key1": "value2a",
      "key2": "value2b"
    },
    {
      "key1": "value5a",
      "key2": "value5b"
    },
    {
      "key1": "value3a",
      "key2": "value3b"
    },
    {
      "key1": "value4a",
      "key2": "value4b"
    }
  ],
  "withDuplicating": [
    {
      "key1": "value1a",
      "key2": "value1b"
    },
    {
      "key1": "value5a",
      "key2": "value5b"
    },
    {
      "key1": "value3a",
      "key2": "value3b"
    }
  ]
}

Note

• As other situation, when f.key1 === e.key1 && f.key2 === e.key2 is modified to f.key1 === e.key1, the duplication of key1 can be retrieved.

Reference

• Benchmark: Loop for Array Processing using Google Apps Script

Gists

This is a sample script for creating new table and putting values to cells using Google Docs API with Google Apps Script. Unfortunately, in the current stage, although I had been looking for the method for creating a table and putting the values in each cell at the official document, I couldn’t find. Google Docs API is growing now. So such documents might be not prepared yet. By this situation, I investigated about the method for achieving this method.

Gists

This is a sample script for investigating the possibility of the real time processes in a cell on Google Spreadsheet using Google Apps Script. As a sample situation, it tried the real time clock in a cell on Google Spreadsheet using Google Apps Script.

Demo:

Usage:

When you use this script, please do the following flow.

Gists

This is a sample script for deleting pages of Google Document from the last page using Google Apps Script. There are no methods for directly deleting pages of Google Document. This is one of several workarounds. In this workaround, the following flow is used.

Flow

1. Retrieve paragraphs in the body of Document.
2. Retrieve elements in each paragraph. The page break is included in the paragraph.
3. Delete elements from last page in order.
4. When the number of page breaks is the same with deletePages, the script is stopped.

By this flow, several pages can be deleted from the last page in order.

Gists

This is a sample script for retrieving total page of Google Document using Google Apps Script. There are no methods for directly retrieving the total page of Google Document. This is one of several workarounds. In this workaround, the total page is retrieved by converting to PDF format.

var n =
  DriveApp.getFileById(id)
    .getBlob()
    .getDataAsString()
    .split("/Contents").length - 1;
Logger.log("totalPages: %s", n);

• When you use this, please set the Google Document ID as id.

Gists

Overview

These are sample scripts for processing the duplicated rows of 2 dimensional arrays using Google Apps Script.

Description

When I use Google Spreadsheet and/or see Stackoverflow, I sometimes see the situation which is required to process the duplicated rows of 2 dimensional arrays. I thought that when the sample scripts for it have already prepared, they will be useful for other users including me. So I published this post. This sample scripts can be also used for Javascript. If this post is useful for you, I’m glad.

Overview

This is a CLI tool for retrieving the number of comments, stars and forks of Gists.

Demo

In this demonstration, a Gist is retrieved by an URL. You can see that the number of comments, stars and forks can be retrieved.

The detail information and how to get this are https://github.com/tanaikech/gistwatcher.

Gists

At April 8, 2019, the specification of Google Apps Script Project was changed. Various specification was changed. Please see the detail at Google Cloud Platform Projects. Here, I would like to introduce one change which might be useful for users. The official document says as follows.

When you enable an advanced service for your script project in the Apps Script editor, it is automatically enabled in the default GCP project when the script project is saved.