Google Spreadsheet scripting

Google DevFestRa’ed Marji @hla3mi

Content

● Simple Google Functions● Simple Web Scraping● Making Live Forms● Adding Scripts to your Forms

○ Featured Scripts○ Hands On Example: Yet Another Mail Merge

Simple Google Functions

DETECTLANGUAGE(range)

Identifies the language in which the text within

the specified range is written.

For example:=DetectLanguage("مرحبا" ) would

give "ar" as a result

Simple Google Functions : Cont.

GoogleTranslate(text, source language,target language)Translates text in the specified range from the source

language into the target language.

Entering "auto" instead of the source language and target

language parameters automatically identifies the language

of the source text and translates into a language based on

your locale settings.

Simple Google Functions : Cont.

GoogleFinance(symbol, attribute)

Retrieves market information from Google

Finance. Learn more, or view an example.

Example: =GoogleFinance("goog","price")other attributes would be :

● “eps”● “close”

Simple Scripting Functions

● ImportFeed(URL, query, headers,

numItems)

Retrieves information from a data feed. View an

example.

Example on parsing a feed

Step 1 : Get the rss or the feed URLURL = http://www.ammonnews.net/rss.aspx?sectionid=47&sectionName=%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B6%D8%A9%20RSS

Step 2 : Get apply the Formula

=ImportFeed(URL,,1,)

Facebook Shares Function

function FBshares(URL){ var JSONData = UrlFetchApp.fetch("graph.facebook.com/"+url); var object = Utilities.jsonParse(JSONData.getContentText()); return object.shares; }

● ImportXml(URL, query, index)

The ImportXML function Retrieves information from an

XML file.

Note:The limit on the number of ImportHtml functions per spreadsheet is 50.

Amazon Price Watch

Step 1:Get the Link.

URL = http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1118443616/

Step 2:Get the class or the id of the desired field. Query= //*[@class="a-color-price"]

Step 3:Put the parameters in the function.=ImportXML(URL,Query)

Creating Forms

● How to create a signup form● Triggers

Fun Trick

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Featured Scripts

● Add reminder○ You have a spreadsheet full of deadlines ? Use this script to receive email reminders before

those deadlines.

● Facebook Likes Counter○ Count Facebook likes for a given URL and returns: sharecount, likescount, commentscount

and totalcount. See template document in help for quick start.

● Gmail Meter○ The most popular statistics and analytics tool for Gmail. Now available at http://gmailmeter.

com.

● Gmail SMS alerts○ If I receive an important email, send me a text. This script uses Gmail filters and Calendar SMS

reminders.

● pushData V1.4.4○ pushData: A utility for pushing tabular data between spreadsheets on time-based triggers.

● Yet Another Mail Merge○ With this mail merge, you can write your template directly in Gmail (save it as a draft - see

help page). Syntax for template markers: <<First Name>>

Yet Another Mail Merge

For more info : https://sites.google.com/site/scriptsexamples/available-web-apps/mail-merge

YAMM : Cont.

YAMM : Cont.

Links

● Test Spreadsheet○ http://bit.ly/1b2vQo0

● How to build and customize your own mail merge○ https://developers.google.com/apps-script/articles/mail_merge

● List of all Google spreadsheet functions○ https://support.google.com/drive/table/25273?page=table.cs&ctx=tooltip&rd=1

● Use the cool Solve feature○ https://support.google.com/drive/answer/139704?hl=en

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