Use Mandrill API in Google Apps Script - google-apps-script

Question

I want to use mandrill email sending api in my google apps script. In google script I have to use JSON code but I am not getting how I will use it. I am very new in Google apps script.
var m = new mandrill.Mandrill('XXXXXXXXXXX');
var from_email = "user4#gmail.com";
var to = '[
{
"email": "recipient.email#example.com",
"name": "Recipient Name"
}
],';
// create a variable for the API call parameters
var params = {
"message": {
"from_email":from_email,
"to":[{"email":to}],
"subject": "Sending a text email from the Mandrill API",
"text": "I'm learning the Mandrill API at Codecademy, it's very difficult."
}
};
function sendTheMail() {
// Send the email!
alert('this is a mail script');
m.messages.send(params, function(res) {
log(res);
}, function(err) {
log(err);
});
}
I am not getting how to use this code in Google Apps Script.

Answer 1

You'd need to use the urlfetchapp.
var url = "https://mandrillapp.com/api/1.0/messages/send.json";
var your_key = "xxxxxxxxxxxxx";
var from_email = "user4#gmail.com";
var to = [{
"email": "recipient.email#example.com",
"name": "Recipient Name"
}];
var params = {
"key": your_key,
"message": {
"from_email":from_email,
"to":[{"email":to}],
"subject": "Sending a text email from the Mandrill API",
"text": "I'm learning the Mandrill API at Codecademy, it's very difficult."
}
};
var payload = JSON.stringify(params);
var options = {
'method': 'post',
'payload': payload,
'contentType' : 'application/json'
};
var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url, options);
Haven't tested this code, but should be something like that.

Answer 2

I paste sample code example to send email by Mandrill with attachment file from Google Drive.
function sendEmail() {
var MANDRILL_API_KEY = "<<your key here>>";
var files = [
"<<Google Drive File ID 1>>",
"<<Google Drive File ID 2>>",
"<<Google Drive File ID 3>>"
];
var recipients = [
{
"email": "ctrlq+to#labnol.org",
"name": "Amit Agarwal",
"type": "to"
}, {
"email": "ctrlq+cc#labnol.org",
"type": "cc"
}, {
"email": "ctrlq+bcc#gmail.com",
"type": "bcc"
}
];
var attachments = [];
for (var f in files) {
var file = DriveApp.getFileById(files[f]);
attachments.push({
"type": file.getMimeType(),
"name": file.getName(),
"content": Utilities.base64Encode(file.getBlob().getBytes())
});
}
var params = {
"key": MANDRILL_API_KEY,
"message": {
"from_email": "<<Sender's Email Address>>",
"from_name": "<<Sender Name>>",
"to": recipients,
"attachments": attachments,
"headers": {
"Reply-To": "reply#example.com"
},
"subject": "Enter email subject",
"text" : "Enter email body in plain text",
"html" : "Enter HTML content with <b>tags</b>"
}
};
var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch(
"https://mandrillapp.com/api/1.0/messages/send.json", {
'method': 'POST',
'payload': JSON.stringify(params),
'contentType': 'application/json'
});
Logger.log(response.getContentText());
}
Sample code is extracted from website ctrlq of Amit Agarwal