Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Google Makes Apps Script Available To All

Posted by Soulskill on from the come-one-come-all dept.

theodp writes "Formerly only available to Apps Users, Google has made Apps Script available to everyone (sample script), including you Google Docs low-lifers. Apps Script lets you automate actions across spreadsheets, sites, calendars, and other Google services. No spamming, kids!"

3 of 61 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Had my hopes up... by betterunixthanunix · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Actually, I have tried to automate tasks using various scripting languages, but it is getting a lot harder to do as more and more sites using AJAX instead of plain old HTML. Even pulling down a web page is becoming hard, since many of the web sites I am required to work with use all manner of session cookies (naturally, there is Javascript involved in that too). If you know of some toolkit or program that can actually run the javascript in a webpage, and let me automate the tasks through that page, that would be awesome, but I have a feeling such an environment does not exist yet.

    --
    Palm trees and 8
  2. Re:Make google spreadsheet useful by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Will this stupid meme please die?

    It has to be one of the stupidest and most intellectually lazy arguments ever.

  3. Re:This is awesome! by olabri · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Some would argue though that that version of Office is superior to the current one...