Introduction to Google Apps Platform

Introduction to Google Apps Platform Prasetyo Andy W. @praw

Google Apps Platform Apps Script Application APIs Domain Admin APIs Auth APIs

Apps Script JavaScript cloud scripting language Automate tasks across Google products and 3rd party services

What you can do with it? Automate repetitive processes and workﬂows Link Google products with third party services Create custom spreadsheet functions Build rich GUI and menus

Development Environment Browser No client libraries needed to install and server to maintain Direct access http://script.google.com

Prerequisites Google Account Supported web browser Basic understanding of JavaScript

Google Apps Script Security Model Grant access needed to any scripts you run that accesses private data Script permission level and access Standalone scripts Container-bound scripts Container owner Container editor Container viewer

Building your ﬁrst script We will create standalone script There are two ways to create a new standalone script: From Google Drive, choose Create > More > Script Go to https://script.google.com

Building your ﬁrst script Let’s try to create a simple one: create a new Google Docs email you a link to the newly created document

Executing a script Script editor Custom function in a spreadsheet Web app Gadget in Google sites Container extension Time-driven trigger Container-speciﬁc trigger

Executing a script click Run icon or choose Run > createAndSendDocument from the menu

More about Apps Script Tutorials: https://developers.google.com/apps-script/ articles

Building user interfaces HTML Service UI Service GUI Builder

Storing data Script and user properties ScriptDb Spreadsheets JDBC

Events and Triggers Events: action that happens when the state of an object changes Clock tick events Script installation events Spreadsheet open events Spreadsheet edit events Spreadsheet form submit events

Events and Triggers Trigger: type of script resource that listens to a particular event and executes a function when that event ﬁres

Now, let’s talk about Application API

Application API Allow developers to write applications that access Google Applications: Gmail, Calendar, and many others using Google Data APIs, Gadgets and Google Apps Script Based on JSON and Atom and RSS syndication formats and the Atom publishing protocol

Application APIs Calendar API Tasks API Gmail API Contacts API Document List API Spreadsheet API Site API

Prerequisites Get a Google Account Try out Google apps (Calendar, Contacts, Docs, etc) Register your project, visit APIs Console (https:// code.google.com/apis/console) Learn about REST Learn about JSON data format

Invoke the API Using REST directly Using client libraries

Restful APIs https://www.googleapis.com/{apiName}/{apiVersion}/ {resourcePath}?{parameters} Returns JSON format

Client Library Client library is available for: Java PHP Python .NET Ruby

Calendar API Lets you develop client applications that create new events, edit or delete existing events, and search for events Integrates your apps with Google Calendar, suits for apps that need to display Calendar and synchronizes it with Google Calendar Uses JSON starting on v3

Tasks API provides developers with a powerful set of API endpoints for searching, reading, and updating Google Tasks content and metadata Various integration projects with web apps or other Google APIs, use Google Task API to manage Google task lists in a mobile app

Gmail API Help you and your users interact with, conﬁgure, and extend Gmail Some possibilities: Gadgets OAuth Access to IMAP or SMTP IMAP Extension Gmail Inbox Feed Email Migration API Email Settings API

Contacts API Allows client applications to create, edit or delete user’s contacts Supports protocol (via curl or wget), Java, .NET and Python

Document List API Allows developer to create, retrieve, update and delete Google Docs Included advanced features like resource archives, OCR (Optical Character Recognition), translation and revision history Useful for storing data in the cloud, perform resource management, convert document formats, etc

Spreadsheets API Managing worksheets in a Google spreadsheet Consuming the rows of a worksheet Managing cells in a worksheet by position

Spreadsheets API Common examples: Computing ﬁnancial data stored in an inaccessible system Presenting statistics to users in a web browser Consuming data entered into a spreadsheet by a user

Sites API Allows client applications to access, publish, and modify content within a Google Site Access and modify Google Site data using Google Data API feeds

You can do it all, if we implement Auth APIs

Auth API Allows third-party applications to get limited access to a user’s Google accounts for certain types of activities

Auth API OAuth 2.0 OAuth 1.0 Hybrid Protocol OpenID

OAuth 2.0 Used for authentication and authorization Relatively simple

OAuth 2.0 Four steps of accessing Google API using OAuth 2.0: 1. Register application 2. Obtain an access token from the Google Authorization Server 3. Send the Access Token 4. Refresh the Access Token

OAuth 2.0 scenarios Login Web server Client-side Installed apps Devices Services accounts

OAuth 2.0 Endpoint: https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/ auth2 Parameters: response_type redirect_uri scope state

Okay, let’s move on and talk about Domain Admin API

Domain Admin APIs Allows developers to write applications to manage Google Apps domains Migrate from and integrate with existing IT infrastructure, create users, update settings, audit activity and more Based on JSON for Admin Audit API and Groups Settings API, others are based on RSS syndication formats

Domain Admin API Audit API Email Migration API Admin Audit API Email Settings API Email Audit API Groups Settings API Admin Settings API Provisioning API Calendar Resource API Reporting API Shared Contacts API User Proﬁles API

Thank you! Prasetyo Andy W. @praw

Introduction to Google Apps Platform

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