This tutorial will show you how access Google Drive files and folders using Apps Script and DriveApp class. We iterate through files using while loop in JavaScript programming language.
Great stuff. I'm looking for a way to watch a folder and (if) someone, in our organization) uploads a file there in that folder then I get a flagged cell in Spreadsheets or a message/email/hangout anything. We have thousands of NULL folders and it's time consuming to constantly chase people or manually go through the folders to see if team members have sent in requested files. P.S. most of these people work in construction so aren't going to have time to link drive files and send emails.
Amazing video I just want to ask that I have a folder in google drive and a sheet in it by using this method how can I add data of that sheet in my current spreadsheet
Hi all. It might be worth pointing out that sometimes you can't see the results in the folders right away. I ran the script without issues yesterday but the small and large folders appeared to be empty. When I checked out the folders today to tinker the script I noticed that the files were copied were they belong. I suppose it might have something to do with my bandwidth.
Hello, would you like to use api for the following: I have a wordpress site, I put files for download, I put the link to my google drive, the user clicks on the link and this file is added to his account? Thanks
Hi Thanks for all your videos, very useful. One use case I could not find in your videos is to upload a file to google drive from GAS web application. if it's already available please point me to it OR it will be very helpful if you could add it. Thanks.
Hi... i'm not a seasoned code writer so please understand if my question is too basic. Could you let me know how to select specific file names within the Drive folder. I'm trying to automate moving files that contain the text "Notes" from one folder to another. I figured out how to move the file; just can get how to select the file(s)
Hello, How to convert photos to OCR as a group using Google Drive? because only one photo is converted to text at each step (through conversion by Google Doc).
Hi, I have some files attached to a google sheet, and there is a column for files url in the sheet. I need to extract the names of these files into a separate column in the sheet. Any help will be appreciated.
Thank you for the vide, this helped me out so much. I do have a question, which I hope you can answer. I have Google advance drive enabled on v2 as I am trying to disable users from being able to download my files. The following code fails stating that my filename which is shown and correct cannot be found: ---- var filename = file.getName(); var labels = { 'labels': {restricted: true} }; Drive.Files.update(labels, filename); ----- Any advice would be so helpful.
Hi, I'm searching how to automatically store gmail attachments into specific google drive folder and then overwrite the same file with the same name. Would you mind to make the script tutorial? I've been searching here and there but found no result. Thank you very much for your attention.
How can I use a function from the different google script file in the same project or may be in a different project ? Please help ! I guess ScriptApp can be used. But i didn't find anything . If you are not free enough to do a video. Just share link or anything. That might help !
Dear i tried to find files contains sepcific word . it works fine with root folder but if i try in subfolder its not working. Will you please guide further. thanks.
Can you help me, I can not find how to do it, I am starting in KODULAR, how can I get DWG files (Autocad) or JPG files from GOOGLE DRIVE and download them to the cell phone by pressing a button in the application, thank you very much.
On my code the line: var folder = folderIter.next(); it's getting me this error message: [20-06-17 09:20:21:049 CDT] TypeError: folderIter.next is not a function at moveFiles(Test 3:5:27) . Would it be because I don't have any files? I am trying to get the files submitted from a Form to a specific folder. The Form automatically sends the files to a particular folder but I need these files to land in a created folder name which the code has been written to create folder if specific information is selected and the folder creation works. All I need is to move the files to the created folders. Can anyone help? Thanks!
Great video, I am trying to do the same but for over 20K images, it is very slow while looping through all those images. Do you have any suggestions to follow for large amount of images? thanks! : )
Hi again. Was wondering if it is possible to make an App Script macro in Google sheets to extract the list of folders/sub-folders (tree) and also a list of people that they are shared with, their access level... Or just point me in the right direction. Many thanks
@@ExcelGoogleSheets Yes! Some script that would pull the metadata. For start, it would be useful to have an input field for entering the link to the folder and then the script runs and returns a table with all the metadata. Is that even possible?
It should be possible, not saying it will be easy though. This may require recursion if you don't have limited level of folder depth in mind, which is a difficult subject on its own. Additionally, I'm not sure how you would get those results in a table, because depending on how many folders you have and the number of folders & files in each folder, this table can get enormously large. But in short you would need one function that gets you folders in a folder, and then recursively call that same function on all folders. I'm not sure whether Google has limit on recursive call stack. Old javascript version does, which Apps Script seems to be using, but then it's a modified version of it, so who knows. You'll have to try and see. I'd say search "javascript recursion" and see if you can wrap your head around it.
Hi ! My name SARETH, I would like to request help. By using Google sheet as database. 1- How to use app script to automatically create google sheet files in particular folder and base on the name ? For example, we want to create Travel Authorization for 40 people only one time and all information containe in the sheet the same but separated files. 2- I want to create Vehicle fleet management system and the system can produce monthly report. In the report containes about: Vehicle ID, DATE of filling fuel, Odometer start, Odometer end, Projects, distance which used for each project. Many thanks for your help
Is there a way to copy my sheet as a pdf to a dropbox folder? What if the dropbox file is different from computer to computer? Or maybe if there is a folder with the name in cell A1 save it to that folder, if not save it to a new folder with the name in A1. Is something like this even possible? thank you
Code seems to run perfectly for me but when shared it returns "Cannot retrieve the next object: iterator has reached the end" - Only occurs with people i have shared file with . Hoping for a quick solution. thanks
Hey I like your videos, I'm working on a script but I can't get it to work properly, I have tried some sample code and modified it. I want to copy sheet to a new sheet in my database log, however i don't want to bring every formula just the fixed values when my script runs. If its possible, what do I need to change in the formula? the comment on top is using contentsOnly:true but when i use it dos not work. Thanks alot // var targetSheet = ss.getSheetByName("CLOSED"); // var target = targetSheet.getRange(targetSheet.getLastRow() + 1, 1); // s.getRange(row, 1, 1, numColumns).copyTo(target, {contentsOnly: true}); // s.deleteRow(row); function onOpen() { var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet(); var pasteSheet = [ {name: "Paste Sheet", functionName: "copySheet"}]; ss.addMenu("Copy to Spreadsheets", pasteSheet); } function copySheet() { var source = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet(); var sheet = source.getSheets()[0]; var sourceFile = DriveApp.getFileById(source.getId()); var sourceFolder = sourceFile.getParents().next(); var folderFiles = sourceFolder.getFiles(); var thisFile; var date = Utilities.formatDate(new Date(), "GMT+1", "dd/MM/yyyy"); var endDate = date; while (folderFiles.hasNext()) { thisFile = folderFiles.next(); if (thisFile.getName() !== sourceFile.getName()){ var currentSS = SpreadsheetApp.openById(thisFile.getId()); sheet.copyTo(currentSS); currentSS.getSheets()[currentSS.getSheets().length-1].setName('THIS WAS COPIED'+" "+endDate); } }; } The plan is to run this every day and make a daily copy at the same time then be able to analyze the change in data.
lol, if you hate curly brackets so much you should probably stay away from programming. Well, I guess you could program in Python, no curly brackets there ;)
