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Google Apps Script for Beginners

You're reading from   Google Apps Script for Beginners Building on your basic JavaScript knowledge, this book takes you into the world of Google Apps Script and shows you how to develop and customize your own apps. The step-by-step approach provides all the necessary skills.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783552177
Length 178 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Serge Gabet Serge Gabet
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Google Apps Script for Beginners
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Enhancing Spreadsheets FREE CHAPTER 2. Create and Manipulate Forms 3. Managing an E-mail Account 4. Embedding Scripts in Text Documents 5. Embedding Scripts in Google Sites 6. Standalone Web Applications / User Interfaces 7. Using User Interfaces in Spreadsheets and Documents 8. How to Expand your Knowledge 9. Conclusion Index

Retrieving Gmail data


After a couple of years, a normal user's Gmail account is often a compilation of thousands of threads and a lot more messages of all kinds. Some have labels, some remain unread sometimes; I even know people who never delete or archive anything and it can easily become a real mess.

Let us assume you are not one of these people and that you already have a couple of labels to sort your messages in a clever way.

The Gmail app is a service that provides methods to retrieve messages in many ways. We can get all threads without any criteria, threads with a specific label, starred threads, and a few other threads but in this first example, we will focus on our inbox threads (https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/gmail/gmail-app#getInboxThreads()).

If you look at the documentation, you'll find two occurrences of the getInboxThreads() method; one has no parameter and the other has two parameters—start and max—to retrieve partial data so that we can process them in...

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