I am looking for a way to automatically open in chrome an URL link contained in specific mails, as soon as they arrive.
Those mails always come from the same address mail (abc#xyz.com), with a similar title, and they contain only one URL link with the same beginning: " http://www.abcd.com/..."
I'm using the app mail on a mac.
I created a rule in mail:
If a New mail arrives and the address contains "abc#xyz.com"
Then run Script "XXX".
I now can't seem to find a way to make this script work. I could use AppleScript ou JavaScript, but I was told Javascript will be better for this purpose. What do you think?
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Background
The UN Secretary-General and other organs issue hundreds of reports to the General Assembly each year, and there is no unified list of these reports, like there are for other documents. There is, however, a simplified url for reading these reports using their document codes http://undocs.org/[document code] with the document codes having the format A/[Session]/[Document Number]. An example document code would be "A/71/1" and the url for accessing it would be "https://undocs.org/A/71/1".
I'm trying to download all of these documents for the past 15 years, but instead of manually typing in each of these, I'd like to set up a Google Apps Script to do it for me.
Problem
When I try to use the simple method UrlFetchApp.fetch("http://undocs.org/A/71/1"); for example, it fetches an error page saying that I am using an unauthorized method of accessing the page. This is the same page that shows up if you block cookies or sometimes when you try to access the page in an incognito window.
Now, I'm not looking to hack into the UN, but simply to download some PDFs that are up for public access. I need to figure out what sort of parameters I need to pass with the .fetch() method for the request to be authorized by the page.
Note: I scoured the undocs.org site looking for any guidance, and I found none.
tl;dr
Trying to access United Nations Official Document System using the UrlFetchApp from Google Apps Script, but I can't figure out how to get the request to be authorized.
Short answer - I don't think you'll be able to get it with a one-line fetch.
If you look at the HTML returned when you fetch https://undocs.org/A/71/1, you'll see that it embeds a frame that gets its content from https://daccess-ods.un.org/access.nsf/Get?OpenAgent&DS=A/71/1&Lang=E. Then, if you look at the HTML returned by that frame, you'll see two things:
A frame that loads https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/prod/ods_mother.nsf?Login&Username=freeods2&Password=1234
A redirect to the actual PDF at https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N16/206/02/PDF/N1620602.pdf?OpenElement
I presume that the first link sets a cookie indicating that the login has occurred, which the second link then verifies before returning the content.
Things you could try:
A multi-step fetch, where you first get the content from undocs.org, parse it to get the link to the actual PDF, then login and fetch the PDF. Google Apps Script would have to persist cookies between fetches though.
Write your script in different tool (such as Python).
Use a spider/crawler tool to navigate the UN site as if it was a real human.
UPDATE: I have found a solution. This doesn't necessarily address every case, so I will leave the question open for a short time in case someone can enlighten me more. I solved it by changing the format of the url: Google Drive allows this format for downloading files:
https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=FILE_ID
So I don't know if this is a problem for other URL's; nor actually exactly why the .getDownloadUrl() doesn't work ... maybe someone can explain. But for now this seems to work in the browsers that I can test ...
I have a simple WebApp script which I run on a Google Site by adding the Apps Script gadget. The gadget runs exactly as the Forms example on:
https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/html/communication#forms
The gadget is designed to do the following: when the page is loaded, a form is returned, and the user must enter a license key to get a link to download a product. My code serves the form OK, and gets the form submit OK; and it then validates the key, and if valid, sends back a link to download. All that works fine; and the problem is that no matter what I try to return for the download link, the caja iframe wrapper is preventing the click on the link from actually downloading the file.
My preferred URL to return is in fact via the Drive API: the download file is on the Google Drive, and I get the download link like so:
DriveApp.getFileById(downloadFileId).getDownloadUrl()
But when the returned link is clicked inside that caja iframe generated for the WebApp gadget, nothing happens. I have tried a few other URL formats pointing to that file on the Drive, but nothing is working for a download.
Is this possible?
.getDownloadUrl() method returns a temporary URL that can be used to download the file. This URL is valid only for a short period of time, after which it expires and does not return the file any more - that is probably why the links in your web app do not work. Can't remember exactly how long the URL is valid for, but I think it could be as short as 5 minutes.
Permanent download URL is stored in another file property: webContentLink. However, this property is not (yet) available through Google Apps Drive Service - you must use Advanced Drive Service to access it. You can enable Drive API under Advanced Google services in your script. After it is enabled, you can use it like so:
var file = Drive.Files.get(FILE_ID_HERE);
var dlUrl = file.webContentLink;
This will return the link just like the one you found and posted in your update. An advantage of using the Drive API to get the link, instead of hard-coding it, is that if Google ever changes the format of that URL, your code using Drive API to get the link will continue to work, while hard-coded links will not.
Full Drive Web API reference (what Advanced Drive Service uses) is at https://developers.google.com/drive/v2/reference/.
I'm building an Add-on that needs to open a window and send some for data (via POST) to a remote server. I can do either of those items fine - UrlFetchApp() for sending the data, and an anchor tag to open a new window, but I couldn't find a way to do both of them together.
Basically I need to send the user to another website temporarily and provide that website with some data entered within the Add-on. I tried doing this with pure javascript, but the window.open() method is not available within the GAS sandbox.
Thanks!
Its not possible in apps script (and not possible in javascript either).
What you need is to open the external site with anchor & needed parameters (post data) in the url itself. Your external url in its javascript must convert the params to a Post (or handle it directly in its server's Get)
Also, if the external page is for doing some authentication with callback (like oauth flow) apps script now support such 'oauth callbacks'
I'm using Google Apps Script and Content Service. I would like to provider users with a way to download an attachment for a given Gmail Message.
The Gmail Attachment objects doesn't expose a download URL like the Site Attachment does so I'm trying to use Content Service to serve the bits for the attachment. Content Service appears to only support text and does not have an API for returning byte[].
Is there a work around?
Option 1
You can encode your attachments as Base64 using Utilities.base64Encode() and then decode it at the client end.
Option 2
Save the attachment to Drive, give appropriate permissions and give the link to download the attachment.
As an aside, ContentService is useful only if your attachments are not accessed manually i.e. they are accessed through another program. If your users are manuaaly invoking the script, they might as well be given a link to download the attachment
I know this question was asked like a million times by now, but I couldn't really find a good up-to-date solution.
I've implemented my own menu to provide the user the ability to Cut, Copy and Paste into my WebApp.
But I'm not sure how to actually work with the clipboard on Firefox, IE, Safari/Chrome.
Thank you for your help.
I just wrote a detailed technical blog post on this very subject (I work for Lucidchart and we recently did an overhaul on our clipboard). Included in the post is this fiddle which is a working example of copying and pasting via Javascript.
The good news is that this example gives you working code for setting/getting any supported clipboard data types whenever the user uses a clipboard hotkey.
The bad news is that using your own context menu to copy and paste is problematic. Even Google can't get around this (try using context-menu copy or paste in Google Docs in Firefox). You'll be able to get it to work without too much trouble in IE. This is because you can access the clipboardData object at anytime from Javascript via:
window.clipboardData
(When you attempt to do this outside of a system cut, copy, or paste event, however, IE will prompt the user to grant the web application clipboard permission.)
In Chrome, you can create a chrome extension that will give your web app clipboard permissions (this is what we do for Lucidchart). Then for users with your extension installed you'll just need to fire the system event yourself when they click the menu option:
document.execCommand('copy');
It looks like Firefox has some options that allow users to grant permissions to certain sites to access the clipboard, but I haven't tried any of these personally.
did u try :
http://ericphan.info/development/cross-browser-copy-and-paste-with-jquery-copy/
UPDATE:
the link is not available so i copy the content from cache :
The Scenario
I was working on a client project for SSW when the client reported a bug in the web app.
The bug involved a dynamically generated mailto link that got updated when you selected multiple employees. The client was reporting an error when he selected more than 10 employees to email. His Lotus Notes mail client popped up an error saying:
Error processing command line arguments
Testing this myself I found that Outlook 2007 could easily support the emails of 30-40 employees before the mailto link stopped working.
The Cause
It turns out that the mailto spec has a limit and the mail clients also have a limit. Lotus Notes only handles 240 characters in the mailto link and other modern mail clients like Outlook 2007 support the 2083 characters - the max length of a URL
This explains the discrepancy in testing.
The fix - JQuery to the rescue
Since this is a limitation of the HTML spec we needed another solution to meet the client’s requirement of “I want to be able to select multiple employees and send an email to all of them”
We could have created an email form that used SMTP to send out the email - but the client wanted to use Lotus Notes as his mail client.
We ended up changing the “email” button to copy all the emails (comma separated) onto the clipboard and popped open a new email window. All the client had to do was hit CTRL + V and paste the emails into the TO field. This was the quickest and most cost effective solution that gave the client the flexibility to use their own email client.
There is a JQuery plugin called jquery.copy that provided cross browser copy and paste by using a flash (swf) file. This is similar to how the syntax highlighter on my blog works.
Once you reference the jquery.copy.js file all you need to do to push data into the clipboard is run the following:
$.copy("some text to copy");
Nice and easy ;)
Note: you may need to change the path the the SWF file in jquery.copy.js to get this to work