I am using a script that sends an email whenever a user submits a form. Since the script is using my Google account to send the emails, I have to authorize it and that makes sense. However, my scripts eventually stop working (seemingly)randomly and requires re-authentication. The most recent occurrence happened today, one of my scripts requires authentication even though it states that the last edit happened 4 days ago.
Basically, I understand why I have to authenticate, but what makes me have to re-authenticate?
Scripts that use more sensitive apis like Gmail will force a reauth on every code change. Otherwise, you shouldn't need a reauth unless you use a new api, or if you start writing when in the past you were only reading (basically, if you do something beyond the scope of what was previously authorized).
Changes to the script will require you to re-authorize. And something as simple as adding a space to your code counts as a change. Many times these are inadvertent.
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I started quite recently experimenting with web apps, and I am now busy getting them to run across accounts within my organization.
I need to update labels to Gmail emails across these accounts, as well as update a shared spreadsheet. I trigger my scripts via a get request triggered from the client details spreadsheet, which identifies the email threads in the associated accounts and applies them a label.
For this to work without having to create a web app per account executed as the owner of the account, I imagined that a deployment executed as the user who executes the trigger would just do it. However, doing so results in an html response that seems to be an authorization screen from Google.
I am not very familiar with the required authentification concept in this case, as I had no issue since a year than I work with Google scripts. I guess Google should show the authentification prompt like they always do, but in this case it's not showing up.
It works fine when the app is run as myself, but I’d hate to have to replicate and maintain the project on each account, even though that is a way to achieve the result.
I read a number of articles, but many did not apply to my situation, and others were beyond my current skill to try them all out. I also tried a few things in the cloud console but I am too noob to get my head around it fully.
I use the required oAuth scopes and don't see what can be missing. I tried putting "Authorization": "Bearer " + ScriptApp.getOAuthToken() in my request's headers but this makes no difference.
Thanks in advance for your help!
Running an Apps Script on my GMail Inbox to help me prioritize my emails (NOTE: the built-in prioritization for GMail is not working after training it for months, it still gets things backwards all the time, so I turned it off - so please don't suggest I do that)
I have a loop that goes through all the relevant messages, and sets each message to a GmailMessage class variable called thisMessage. I can set a "star" using thisMessage.star() and I can remove a "star" using thisMessage.unstar(). However, I would prefer to be able to use the different, built-in custom start shapes and colors (e.g. red-bang, yellow-bang, green-check). From other questions here, I have figured out how to search for them and bring up emails with particular stars. However, I have to manually set them in the GMail app. I want them to be automatically set under some conditions in my script (Note: I'm currently using labels in place of the stars, but I would like to not clutter up my label list in the app)
How do you actually set one of these custom stars in a given message in Apps Script?
Currently this is a feature only available in the Web UI. Star type cannot be changed either with Apps Script or the API in general. Even the mobile Gmail app doesn't support the different types.
A few hints to this are that the message object doesn't have any star-related attributes. Also, if you check the messages.get representation of an email you will notice that the starred status of an email is defined by "labelIds":["STARRED"], but you can change the star type in the UI and the label will still be the same and there are no other attributes changed.
There are multiple threads in Google's issue tracker requesting this, such as this one or this one and also this one. They've been open for a while so it doesn't look like Google is prioritizing this feature, so the best you can do for now is to +1 these threads and hope they see that there's more user demand for it. If you really must automate these differentiations between important emails the closest you'll get is to use labels, which do have Apps Script methods.
Currently the bane of my existence is dealing with users email signatures at work, changing names, titles, departments, new users...it's all annoying. Currently I manage it with GAM and a semi templated HTML file to push changes, which works okay, but it's still a manual process. What I'm looking to do is create a small app script or app engine project that can...
detect a new or changed user
pull the fields needed to fill in their signature template
push the changes to their account
2 & 3 are no problem at all, it's #1 that I cannot find a reasonable solution to.
I had thought about using the google apps audit settings to email a specific mailbox when a new user is created, but that will only catch new users, not changes in titles and such. My only apparent option is something that runs periodically checking all the users signatures against what my script would generate and updating if needed, but that's hardly efficient and creates a potential timelapse in the waiting period meaning when people want things 'done now' (which is of course, every request), it will mean I manually trigger the job; effectively bringing me back to my original solution.
Is there any kind of user feed that contains changes available in google apps? Maybe google has a POST hook that hits a predefined URL on changes?
You can probably use push notifications for this https://developers.google.com/drive/web/push using the users.watch method https://developers.google.com/admin-sdk/directory/v1/reference/users/watch
I want to create a script that runs on a Google site. The script would perform a specialized calculation for a given user and then display the answer for the user. The script would depend upon user input, but the code itself should not be viewable by the user. I want the code to exist in a "black box" so that the calculation formula can be kept secret. Is this possible?
I searched the documentation, but only found this, which does not address this question:
https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/services/authorization#permissions_and_types_of_scripts
Whether your App script is embedded in a site or written as a standalone script does not change a lot of things... the only difference will be the way you include it on a page as a gadget.
If it is embedded it will be available from a list of scripts in the page editing, if not you'll have to use the .exec url of the deployed webapp.
Anyway, that does not change the way people will have access to the app.
You can define these parameter when you deploy the app (which is mandatory in both cases), allowing for anonymous access or requiring to be logged in.
If I understood you correctly, you would like to restrict the access to some people but not share the code.
Depending on how you defined the access mode above and wether you are using a Google Apps inside a domain or not, you will be able to do it using 2 ways :
in a domain you can get the logged user identity and use that to accept/deny showing the app.
in a "normal" gmail account you will have to implement some sort of logging feature to request a user name and password to give access to the active part of the app.
In both case you never need to share the script itself, this sharing parameter is independent from the webapp access.
I hope I understood your question correctly... if not, feel free to comment.
You might check out the Private Functions section of the following page.....the example is similar to what you're referring to, I think.
https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/html/communication?hl=ru
I don't fully understand how they work and haven't used them myself, but I bookmarked it to figure out later. Maybe another user who understands Private Functions better can explain...
Summary
Is it possible to use the Gmail forwarding feature to send (i.e., “push”) via HTTP (GET/POST) to my GAS script URL? (And perhaps include its contents as a parameter?)
Goal/Background
My goal is to immediately process my incoming Gmail instead of, say, using the GAS trigger feature to query and “pull” my Gmail on a periodic basis.
The former method is relatively immediate. Whereas, the latter method creates an expected delay equal to the mean interval time between (automatically triggered) queries to my inbox.
Possible Solutions
1. Gmail Data API
This documentation states Gmail lacks a data API.
2. Atom/RSS Feeds
Atom/RSS feeds still require an aggregator to pull the data from the server and, thus, do not accomplish my goal of a push-only solution to my GAS URL to, then, in turn, trigger my script via doGet() or doPost().
3. IMAP/POP
These solutions are designed for desktop/offline processing of emails and, therefore, do not meet my goals. I need a solution that lives on the web and automates my web-based email checking tasks.
4. High-frequency GAS Trigger
A, say, 60-second trigger interval in GAS does not work because there is a cost to such high-frequency triggers in GAS due to quota limitations. i.e., I don't want to use up that much quota space on this one task because I need it for other stuff.
5. 3rd Party Listeners
I would prefer something free if possible. Someone has suggested Zapier® — which does have a free version. Do these work? Are there others?
Conclusion
Are there any creative ideas out there? Perhaps to point me in a creative direction?
I would even settle for just a way to be immediately notified (programmatically) that I received a new email.
Not possible from Google Apps Script:
Google Apps Script currently available events:
https://developers.google.com/apps-script/understanding_events
Does Gmail have a Data API?
FAQ: https://developers.google.com/gdata/faq#GmailAtomFeed
Looks like IMAP is the only option, not sure if IMAP supports callback.
A trigger can kick off a script every 60 seconds. As you stated before, this puts your average notification at 30 seconds (let's not get started on possible flaws in statistical assumptions).
Another possibility for a more immediate action is to use a service like Zapier.com as a listener. It can listen for new emails in your gmail inbox, apply filters, and initiate a GET/POST to the URL for your Apps Script (make sure it is the newest version published).
I hope this helps. Curious why you need immediate handling of the messages ...