Beginner's Guide to Google Apps Script 2 - Drive

A step-by-step guide to using Google Apps Script with Google Drive. This book assumes no knowledge of coding or of Apps Script and will take you from writing your first script to using Apps Script with Drive with confidence.


Every chapter contains numerous practical examples of scripts with every step explained along the way. It also contains links to the files used in the book. It also covers some Javascript basics, relating them specifically to their use in Apps Script. 


Contents:

What is Google Apps Script?

Script Editor

JavaScript Basics

Chapter 1 - Creating files and folders in My Drive

Chapter 2 - Creating files & folders in specific folders

Chapter 3 – Making copies of files and creating folders from a URL

Chapter 4 – Adding and removing files and folders

Chapter 5 – Adding and removing editors to/from files & folders

Chapter 6 – Copying a Doc and making a PDF from it

Chapter 7 – Getting contents of a Drive folder

Chapter 8 – Getting files by type

Chapter 9 – Creating download URLs

Chapter 10 – Automatically send a brochure when a form is submitted

Chapter 11 – Searching files and folders

Links to the complete scripts

Further Reading