How to Embed Images from Google Drive on your Website

Looking for a place to host images so you can embed them on to your website? The most popular image hosting services are imgur.com and imgbb.com but did you know that you can also use Google Drive to host images.It works something like this. You upload an image file to Google Drive and make that file public. Google Drive will now generate a high-resolution...

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How to Open a Website in New Window from Google Sheets Menu

Let’s say you have built an add-on for Google Sheets that adds a new menu item to the sheets UI. You would now like to add an option in the menu that, when clicked, will redirect the user to your website without the user having to click any other button.For instance, in this demo Google Sheet, we have a parent menu and a sub-menu that opens the underlying...

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How to Play an MP3 File in Google Sheets

You can put the link of any MP3 audio file in Google Sheets but when you click the file link, the audio would not play. You can however add a button in your Google Sheet that, when clicked, will play the MP3 file in modal window.Here’s a demo:The audio files are hosted on Google Drive and when the Play button is clicked, the app will open a modal window...

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How to Auto-Download Podcasts to Google Drive with Google Sheets

This tutorial describes how you can use Google Sheets to build your own podcast manager. You can specify a list of your favorite podcast shows in Google Sheets and it will automatically download new episodes to your Google Drive in neatly organized folders.The setup is very simple, the app is completely open-source and you need no programming language.How...

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How to Build a Website Scraper with Puppeteer and Firebase Functions

Let’s create a simple website scraper that download the content of a web page and extract the content of the page. For this example, we will use the New York Times website as the source of the content. The scraper will extract the top 10 news headlines on the page and display them on the web page. The scraping is done using the Puppeteer headless browser...

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How to Build a HTML Form for Uploading Files to Google Cloud Storage

Let’s write a simple web application that will allow users to upload files to Google Cloud Storage without authentication. The client site of the application will have an HTML form with one or more input fields. The server side is a Node.js application that will handle the file upload. The application may be deployed to Google Cloud Run, Firebase Function...

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How to Generate Dynamic QR Codes to Collect Payments through UPI

The BHIM UPI payment system has transformed the way we pay for goods and services in India. You scan a QR Code with your mobile phone, enter the secret PIN and the money gets instantly transferred from your bank account to the merchant’s bank account. There’s no transaction fee, the money is transferred in real-time and no data of the payer is shared...

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How to Use Google OAuth 2.0 to Access Google APIs with Refresh Token

Let’s build a simple web application that uses Google OAuth 2.0 to access Google APIs. The user can sign-in with their Google account and authorize the application to access their Google Drive or any other Google service.When the user signs in, Google redirects the user to the Google OAuth 2.0 authorization page. The user is asked to grant access to...

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How to Extract Text from PDF Files with Google Apps Script

An external accounting system generates paper receipts for its customers which are then scanned as PDF files and uploaded to a folder in Google Drive. These PDF invoices have to be parsed and specific information, like the invoice number, the invoice date and the buyer’s email address, needs to be extracted and saved into a Google Spreadsheet.Here’s...

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How to Use Conditional Formatting in Google Sheets to Highlight Information

Conditional formatting in Google Sheets makes it easy for you to highlight specific cells that meet a specific criteria. For instance, you can change the background color of a cell to yellow if the cell value is less than a certain number. Or you can choose to highlight an entire row or column if certain conditions are met.Highlight Individual CellsFor...

Apr 2022