I am very new to using google script and is something I have taken interest in recently, with no prior knowledge I have so far been trying to self teach.
I have been playing around with a excel formula that will grab some data from a table on a daily basis and concatenate into a Date and Time format.
So I have the following data in a table:
Event : Time Start : Time End : Location : Description
Work Rota: 24/01/2022 08:30:00 : 24/01/2022 19:30:00 : (postcode) : Work Shift for today
The first row being headers and the 2nd row with the data I am trying to utilise.
The data in the Time Start and Time End column is data using the concatenate formula from another spreadsheet.
If this was not a concatenate formula, the correct Date and Time format for the script works fine, However I understand due to the concatenate formula, the data for the string format is not suitable for the createEvent function.
I have been playing around with google script to find a way to take this data and being able to import it into my google calendar and after struggling now for multiply days! I cannot find a resolution.
Is there a formula or process, that can read the data in column 2 and 3 to convert the data into a suitable format needed for the createevent function
This is the script I have been using.
function addEvents() {
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheetByName("TEST");
var lr = ss.getLastRow();
var cal = CalendarApp.getCalendarById("calendarId");
var data = ss.getRange("A2:E" + lr).getValues();
for (var i = 0;i<data.length;i++){
cal.createEvent(data[i][0], data[i][1], data[i][2], {location: data[i][3], description: data[i][4]});
}
}
I appreciate anyone that may be able to help with this and thank you in advance!
I would have tried:
cal.createEvent(data[i][0], new Date(data[i][1]), new Date(data[i][2]), {location: data[i][3], description: data[i][4]});
}
I am developing a data processing app using Google Sheets and its API as backend .
In that I will upload all datas as arrays with GOOGLETRANSLATE via batchUpdate API like below
[hello_word,"Hello World",=GOOGLETRANSLATE("Hello World","en","es"),=GOOGLETRANSLATE("Hello World","en","fr"),=GOOGLETRANSLATE("Hello World","en","ar")]
[good_morning,"Good morning ",=GOOGLETRANSLATE("Good morning ","en","es"),=GOOGLETRANSLATE("Good morning ","en","fr"),=GOOGLETRANSLATE("Good morning ","en","ar")]
// 1000 keys ....
Now my problem is ,
Since there are more than 3000 cells to be translated , it take some time .
Meanwhile , the cells showing "Loading..." message until translations finished
Now my need is , I need some ways to find whether all of 3000+ cells are translated from outside , that is something like , executing a script in Google Sheet(stored in apps script) from a REST API such as Google Sheets API .
What I tried
First I search Stackoverflow and got a script and executed it manually in console with some success.
function searchText() {
var findText = "Loading...";
var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var CurrSheet = sheet.getSheetByName('strings');
var SHTvalues = CurrSheet.createTextFinder(findText).findAll();
var result = SHTvalues.map(r => ({row: r.getRow(), col: r.getColumn()}));
//Logger.log(result);
if (result.length > 0) {
Logger.log('still trlansating ');
}
else Logger.log('translated ');
}
The above script works good , but there is a catch.
I am using the search word as 'Loading...'to find in progress cells and it's working
But if any cell contains a user data exactly as 'Loading...', then I am getting false positives !!! , that is translating still in progress !!
So I altered the formula like this : =IFERROR(GOOGLETRANSLATE(A1,"en","es"),"TRANS_PRG")
Then used "TRANS_PRG" as searchText and that issue resolved , but also if the translating failed or formula error , it's still having TRANS_PRG only(can't find the difference between loading error and formula error )
So I also need a permanent solution to know the status for formulas from an external end ?
Please guide me
Instead of pushing data and translation formulas to a spreadsheet, obtain translations through the Language Service, and push the data and the translated text to the spreadsheet.
The following formula does work for some, but not for others:
=IFNA(VALUE(IMPORTXML("https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/C2PU.SI", "//*[#class=""D(ib) Mend(20px)""]/span[1]")))
If used without IFNA, it says 'Resource at url not found'.
Here's the value I'm trying to pull in:
I appreciate if you could point me to the right direction.
Thank you!
It does not return any values even for simple importxml.
It seems the site is generated by javascript or protected so it can't be scraped by importxml.
Don't use the "inspect" tool as it will show the DOM as it's being rendered by the web browser including modifications to the source code by client-side JavaScript, instead look at the source code.
Resources
How to know if Google Sheets IMPORTDATA, IMPORTFEED, IMPORTHTML or IMPORTXML functions are able to get data from a resource hosted on a website?
The structure of the DOM is generated by javascript. Nevertheless, all informations you need are contained by a json string called here root.App.main. You can get all the data by these way
function extract(url){
var source = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url).getContentText()
return source.match(/(?<=root.App.main = ).*(?=}}}})/g) + '}}}}'
}
and then retrieve the data by conventionnal json parsing. This will give you the value
[![function marketPrice() {
var code = 'C2PU.SI'
var url='https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/' + code
var source = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url).getContentText()
var jsonString = source.match(/(?<=root.App.main = ).*(?=}}}})/g) + '}}}}'
var data = JSON.parse(jsonString)
var regularMarketPrice = data.context.dispatcher.stores.StreamDataStore.quoteData.item(code).regularMarketPrice.raw
Logger.log(regularMarketPrice)
}
Object.prototype.item=function(i){return this\[i\]};][1]][1]
I am creating an addon for Google Sheets that my local High School's volunteer clubs can use to keep track of their member's volunteer hours. Most of the code is done and works very nicely, and I am currently working on a system that will send a member a spreadsheet listing all of the volunteer events that they have logged. I have GAS create a separate spreadsheet, and then send an email with that separate spreadsheet attached in PDF. When the email is received, the PDF is empty except for a singular empty cell at the top left of the page.
I am pretty new to GAS but have been able to grasp the content pretty easily. I have only tried one method of sending the Spreadsheet and that is by using the .getAs(MimeType.PDF). When I changed the "PDF" to "GOOGLE_SHEETS," GAS returned the error: "Blob object must have non-null data for this operation." I am not entirely sure what a Blob object is, and have not found any website or video that has fully explained it, so I am not sure how to go about troubleshooting that error.
I think I'm having a problem grabbing the file because it either sends an empty PDF or it returns an error claiming it needs "non-null data."
function TigerMail()
{
var Drive = DriveApp;
var app = SpreadsheetApp;
var LOOKUP = app.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheetByName("Student
Lookup");
var Name = LOOKUP.getRange("E1").getValue();
Name = Name + "'s Hours";
//app.openById(Name+"'s Hours");
var HOURS = app.create(Name);
var ESheet = HOURS.getSheets()[0];
var ROW = LOOKUP.getLastRow();
var arr = LOOKUP.getRange("D1:J"+ROW).getValues();
var cell = ESheet.getRange("A1:G"+ROW);
cell.setValues(arr);
////////////////////////////////////////////////////
var LOOKUP = app.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheetByName("Student
Lookup");
var cell = LOOKUP.getRange("D1");
var Addr = cell.getValue();
var ROW = LOOKUP.getLastRow();
var file = Drive.getFilesByName(Name);
var file = file.next();
var FORMAT = file.getAs(MimeType.GOOGLE_SHEETS);
TigerMail.sendEmail(Addr, "Hours", "Attached is a list of all of the
events you have volunteered at:", {attachments: [FORMAT]} );
}
the final four lines are where the errors are occurring at. I believe I am misunderstanding how the .next() and .getFilesByName() work.
(above the comment line: creating a spreadsheet of hours)
(below the comment line: grabbing the spreadsheet and attaching it to an email)
Here is the link to the Google Sheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qlUfTWaj-VyBD2M45F63BtHaqF0UOVkwi04XwZFJ4vg/edit?usp=sharing
In your script, new Spreadsheet is created and put values.
You want to sent an email by attaching the file which was converted from the created Spreadsheet to PDF format.
If my understanding is correct, how about this modification? Please think of this as just one of several answers.
Modification points:
About Drive.getFilesByName(Name), unfortunately, there is no method of getFilesByName() in Drive.
I think that when you want to use the created Spreadsheet, HOURS of var HOURS = app.create(Name) can be used.
About var FORMAT = file.getAs(MimeType.GOOGLE_SHEETS), in the case of Google Docs, when the blob is retrieved, the blob is automatically converted to PDF format. This can be also used for your situation.
In order to save the values put to the created Spreadsheet, it uses SpreadsheetApp.flush().
When above points are reflected to your script, it becomes as follows.
Modified script:
Please modify as follows.
From:
var file = Drive.getFilesByName(Name);
var file = file.next();
var FORMAT = file.getAs(MimeType.GOOGLE_SHEETS);
To:
SpreadsheetApp.flush();
var FORMAT = HOURS.getBlob();
Note:
In your script, it seems that var ROW = LOOKUP.getLastRow() is not used.
References:
flush()
getBlob()
If I misunderstood your question and this was not the result you want, I apologize.
I'm doing multiple queries (find amount of open/closed issues, use the open/closed issues (per person) to create a leaderboard of developer issue closes, etc - find how many issues were closed this week and how many opened last week - what's the newest issue, what's the oldest issue) to GitHub's API and trying to get the resultant data written onto a Google Sheet. I'm using Google Apps Script Editor to do this.
I can get the JSON data from GitHub API to the console no problem, but I'm not sure how to then parse and write it to Google Sheets. How could I do this, please?
An example of a JSON data (this time it was "open issues" grabbed from http://github.com/vizorvr/patches/ )
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Then implement them.","score":1.0},{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/vizorvr/patches/issues/2034","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/vizorvr/patches","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/vizorvr/patches/issues/2034/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/vizorvr/patches/issues/2034/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/vizorvr/patches/issues/2034/events","html_url":"https://github.com/vizorvr/patches/issues/2034","id":245952930,"number":2034,"title":"Inspect the Radial Point Geometry -plugin and figure out what it does or should do","user":{"login":"esaruoho","id":4966687,"avatar_url":"https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/4966687?v=4","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/esaruoho","html_url":"https://github.com/esaruoho","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/esaruoho/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/esaruoho/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/esaruoho/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/esaruoho/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/esaruoho/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/esaruoho/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/esaruoho/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/esaruoho/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/esaruoho/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"assignees":[],"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2017-07-27T07:41:07Z","updated_at":"2017-07-27T07:41:07Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Go into Patches and add the Radial Point Geometry -patch.\r\n\r\nStudy what it does. Figure if it does anything. If it does something, come up with an example explaining how it should be used - then help with the popup documentation.\r\n\r\n\r\n","score":1.0},{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/vizorvr/patches/issues/2023","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/vizorvr/patches","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/vizorvr/patches/issues/2023/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/vizorvr/patches/issues/2023/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/vizorvr/patches/issues/2023/events","html_url":"https://github.com/vizorvr/patches/issues/2023","id":241289959,"number":2023,"title":"Shortcut: Shift-Tab: improve by opening \"Inspector->Properties\"","user":{"login":"esaruoho","id":4966687,"avatar_url":"https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/4966687?v=4","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/esaruoho","html_url":"https://github.com/esaruoho","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/esaruoho/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/esaruoho/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/esaruoho/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/esaruoho/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/esaruoho/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/esaruoho/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/esaruoho/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/esaruoho/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/esaruoho/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"id":165125694,"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/vizorvr/patches/labels/enhancement","name":"enhancement","color":"84b6eb","default":true},{"id":346495796,"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/vizorvr/patches/labels/user","name":"user","color":"fbca04","default":false},{"id":270777736,"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/vizorvr/patches/labels/UX","name":"UX","color":"5319e7","default":false}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":{"login":"gmarinov","id":14101296,"avatar_url":"https://avatars0.githubusercontent.com/u/14101296?v=4","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/gmarinov","html_url":"https://github.com/gmarinov","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gmarinov/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gmarinov/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gmarinov/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gmarinov/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gmarinov/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gmarinov/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gmarinov/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gmarinov/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gmarinov/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"assignees":[{"login":"gmarinov","id":14101296,"avatar_url":"https://avatars0.githubusercontent.com/u/14101296?v=4","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/gmarinov","html_url":"https://github.com/gmarinov","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gmarinov/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gmarinov/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gmarinov/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gmarinov/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gmarinov/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gmarinov/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gmarinov/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gmarinov/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gmarinov/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false}],"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2017-07-07T14:57:29Z","updated_at":"2017-07-07T15:44:19Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Improve Shift-Tab so that it opens the Inspector ( press I ) AND selects Properties-tab instead of Node.\r\n\r\n","score":1.0},{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/vizorvr/patches/issues/2022","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/vizorvr/patches","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/vizorvr/patches/issues/2022/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/vizorvr/patches/issues/2022/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/vizorvr/patches/issues/2022/events","html_url":"https://github.com/vizorvr/patches/issues/2022","id":24086639
I have, thus far, grabbed something called pullJSON to try and pull the data, which looks like this - however, unfortunately it seems destructive - it does not write to a specific sheet, just any old active sheet. I'm not sure how to modify it to write it to a specific sheet so that it'll work, so that's why I'm asking about how to parse stuff.
function pullJSON() {
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var sheets = ss.getSheets();
var sheet = ss.getActiveSheet();
var url="https://api.github.com/search/issues?q=repo:vizorvr/patches+state:closed"; // Paste your JSON URL here
var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url); // get feed
var dataAll = JSON.parse(response.getContentText()); //
var dataSet = dataAll;
var rows = [],
data;
for (i = 0; i < dataSet.length; i++) {
data = dataSet[i];
rows.push([data.id, data.name,data.email]); //your JSON entities here
}
dataRange = sheet.getRange(1, 1, rows.length, 3); // 3 Denotes total number of entites
dataRange.setValues(rows);
}
Edit 2
Was able to get the number of open issues in the repo, and the number of closed issues in the repo, but to dump them to a specific cell is still very vague for me.
var openPatches = "https://api.github.com/search/issues?q=repo:vizorvr/patches+state:open"
var closedPatches = "https://api.github.com/search/issues?q=repo:vizorvr/patches+state:closed"
var openResponse = UrlFetchApp.fetch(openPatches, {'muteHttpExceptions': true});
var Data = JSON.parse(openResponse.getContentText());
Logger.log("Open issues on Patches GitHub:")
Logger.log(Data.total_count)
var closedresponse = UrlFetchApp.fetch(closedPatches, {'muteHttpExceptions': true});
var data = JSON.parse(closedresponse.getContentText());
Logger.log("Closed issues on Patches GitHub:")
Logger.log(data.total_count)
Logger.log(Object.keys(data))
Could I in theory just write Data.total_count and data.total_count to different cells on a sheet, without having to have a google sheet open in another tab on the browser?
Based on your update, to write the data in to a specific sheet you need to use getSheetByName to write in to a specific sheet
var url ="<<SPREADSHEET URL>>";
var ss= SpreadsheetApp.openByUrl(url)
var sheet = ss.getSheetByName("<<SHEET NAME>>");
To store the values in different cell, you can define the range and set the values accordingly.
sheet.getRange("A1").setValue(Data.total_count); //Open issues
sheet.getRange("B1").setValue(data.total_count); //Closed issues