Google Apps Script - Google Drive Tutorial, Files, Folders, Copy Files, DriveApp, Iterator - Part 15

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.

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  • @tomsawkins9828
    @tomsawkins98284 жыл бұрын

    just spent 2hrs turning this into something i wanted for ages - once again thanks very much for these videos

  • @TheKeule33
    @TheKeule335 жыл бұрын

    Damn! It's always a great pleasure learning with your videos. This is a new topic for me and i'm very happy to find you having it covered!

  • @siddharthjain6629
    @siddharthjain66294 жыл бұрын

    Just one word for this video!! WOW!!! Really apps scripts is wonderful tool for management

  • @ybressler
    @ybressler5 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful! Thank you for this!

  • @sanjay.bhatnagar
    @sanjay.bhatnagar6 жыл бұрын

    Great piece of teaching!

  • @Guillute
    @Guillute4 жыл бұрын

    Very few views. I'm glad to be a nerd learning things. Thanks for the video. It is gonna help me on a project I'm working on

  • @catnop1912
    @catnop19125 жыл бұрын

    You are a hero...We love you man !!!

  • @RahulSharma-uj7cr
    @RahulSharma-uj7cr2 жыл бұрын

    Great tutorial as usual. please share more videos on google sheet and drive app together.

  • @fredericocardosostein8008
    @fredericocardosostein80084 жыл бұрын

    Great, very useful video! Thank you

  • @gabrielamorales86
    @gabrielamorales863 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for this tutorial!!

  • @bensonchen8346
    @bensonchen83465 жыл бұрын

    thanks for the video!

  • @freshbreeze6180
    @freshbreeze61803 жыл бұрын

    This is awesome.

  • @programador1972
    @programador19726 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, good script

  • @gerardodiaz4642
    @gerardodiaz46423 жыл бұрын

    interesting explanation!!!

  • @geremycao4919
    @geremycao49195 жыл бұрын

    Awesome Video

  • @PriscillaSecret
    @PriscillaSecret5 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the video

  • @AlexanderAbramovNN
    @AlexanderAbramovNN6 жыл бұрын

    Thank you! Please make a lesson about the input data (external web form )?

  • @prakashchaudhary839
    @prakashchaudhary8396 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for your all efforts Sir Please upload daily videos

  • @nsewin

    @nsewin

    6 жыл бұрын

    sir when i use this in sheet using retrun method showing me error message "you dont have permission to getfolderbyId" kindly guide how to solve this

  • @muradelvis5267
    @muradelvis52675 жыл бұрын

    Thank you. Could you tell me please what screen recorder you use for making your videos in that high quality?

  • @djerikgerst12
    @djerikgerst12 Жыл бұрын

    Great. Thank you.

  • @DavidMermelstein
    @DavidMermelstein6 жыл бұрын

    Good job. I enjoy your videos. Now that it is done, does the script run automatically when add a photo to that folder?

  • @BenniK88
    @BenniK884 жыл бұрын

    Awesome tutorial. How could I insert the found pictures into the cells with the made while loop?

  • @elricho72
    @elricho723 жыл бұрын

    Great video

  • @nssdesigns
    @nssdesigns3 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @kshitijpandey3290
    @kshitijpandey32903 жыл бұрын

    could you do a quick video on how to upload a file (image maybe) using App Script from a Web App?

  • @Benji-Hello-World
    @Benji-Hello-World4 жыл бұрын

    "if you don't know what you're doing" haha yep good advice

  • @lastmonsta
    @lastmonsta5 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @Benji-Hello-World
    @Benji-Hello-World4 жыл бұрын

    Great videos the best for Google SpreadsheetApp learning

  • @ExcelGoogleSheets

    @ExcelGoogleSheets

    4 жыл бұрын

    Glad you liked it

  • @ronelarinal1865
    @ronelarinal18652 жыл бұрын

    thumbs up for this! thank you.

  • @ExcelGoogleSheets

    @ExcelGoogleSheets

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @soham-dalvi
    @soham-dalvi4 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @paampaadotcom960
    @paampaadotcom9602 жыл бұрын

    Thank you

  • @r3ap3r10
    @r3ap3r104 жыл бұрын

    How can I take a set of images from a google drive folder, like you're doing here, and automatically make a Google slides out of them?

  • @charudhingra3062
    @charudhingra30622 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @tupushaka9539
    @tupushaka95394 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @bintangariamangkuyudha5062
    @bintangariamangkuyudha50622 жыл бұрын

    this guy is fabulous, it will be good if he live neighborhood.

  • @athandiwencukana6431
    @athandiwencukana64313 жыл бұрын

    Hi Nice video as usual, Is there a way that i can move files from my Drive to Team drive folder?

  • @user-uademos
    @user-uademos3 жыл бұрын

    Hi, can you tell us about continuationtoken when folder with subfolders are need to be scaned for files?

  • @farukazam7250
    @farukazam72503 жыл бұрын

    Thanks

  • @mohammedal-momin6075
    @mohammedal-momin60754 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @Zhurak
    @Zhurak4 жыл бұрын

    so you added the file names to the spreadsheet but how do you actually add the image itself to the cell.

  • @halee2124
    @halee21245 жыл бұрын

    can you please show how you can upload files from a web app and into a google sheet?

  • @imtiazali1628
    @imtiazali16284 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @passangtsheringtamang5685
    @passangtsheringtamang56853 жыл бұрын

    It would very much help if could make video regarding file upload to the google drive folder with help of apps script.

  • @andremadrugapaulo7260
    @andremadrugapaulo72603 жыл бұрын

    it would be super awesome if we could automatically(once per day) save folders from Goggle drive to our pc and then delete them

  • @davidduran2984
    @davidduran29844 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @ExcelGoogleSheets

    @ExcelGoogleSheets

    4 жыл бұрын

    Good tip!

  • @phoenixempire8886
    @phoenixempire88863 жыл бұрын

    🙏🏻

  • @MichaelDaniels
    @MichaelDaniels4 жыл бұрын

    Can we get files from a shared with me folder?

  • @MichaelDaniels
    @MichaelDaniels4 жыл бұрын

    Is there a way to add a file name in a cell? For example I open a file and I want that file name in cell a1

  • @ConsulthinkProgrammer
    @ConsulthinkProgrammer3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Sir, how to reduce that file size suppose I upload an image with size 5 MB and I want to reduce it to 500 KB ?

  • @gracielaruiz9325
    @gracielaruiz93254 жыл бұрын

    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!

  • @jimceron
    @jimceron3 жыл бұрын

    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! : )

  • @ExcelGoogleSheets

    @ExcelGoogleSheets

    3 жыл бұрын

    I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to do with your files. Using something like Google Colab may help, but again, depends on many factors here.

  • @belochmek
    @belochmek5 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @chatchiiiclassic1278
    @chatchiiiclassic12784 жыл бұрын

    Yep.

  • @LaurivaldoLopes
    @LaurivaldoLopes4 жыл бұрын

    can I increase or program a minimum access limit?

  • @akeelabtan8606
    @akeelabtan86064 жыл бұрын

    Hi, how we can create a sheet inside a spacial folder using Google Apps Script?

  • @solartechdocument419
    @solartechdocument4193 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much. How do I open a file using google apps script?

  • @glistenlegal5186
    @glistenlegal51863 жыл бұрын

    Sir please make a video how to automatically rename a file uploaded in Google form based on fields in Google form

  • @direcciondeformacionintegr2134
    @direcciondeformacionintegr21344 жыл бұрын

    This function works well from the console but from a document, the call to Driveapp... does not work, why? What's left to define? SORRY FOR MY ENGLISH

  • @kjvbible1611
    @kjvbible16112 жыл бұрын

    How would u add video files to a spreadsheet?

  • @paparipapari2899
    @paparipapari2899 Жыл бұрын

    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).

  • @salisartxoxo6868
    @salisartxoxo68682 жыл бұрын

    Super video and very easy to follow

  • @underseavision6771
    @underseavision67712 жыл бұрын

    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)

  • @underseavision6771

    @underseavision6771

    2 жыл бұрын

    figured it out.....

  • @estonhumphrey2911
    @estonhumphrey29116 жыл бұрын

    Is there a book that I can learn all this in?

  • @koungsareth8623
    @koungsareth86233 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @asifpaLash
    @asifpaLash4 жыл бұрын

    how to uplaod a file to my drive folder by ID?

  • @navneetsharma4195
    @navneetsharma41953 жыл бұрын

    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 !

  • @FernandoSouzadroid
    @FernandoSouzadroid2 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @rustyalminar7229
    @rustyalminar72293 жыл бұрын

    How can we create folder to user login then create folder then select that, pls help. im subs btw, thank you!

  • @marlonvelezrocha9128
    @marlonvelezrocha91284 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @lazalazarevic6192
    @lazalazarevic61924 жыл бұрын

    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

    @ExcelGoogleSheets

    4 жыл бұрын

    access to what? folders, files in folders?

  • @lazalazarevic6192

    @lazalazarevic6192

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@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?

  • @ExcelGoogleSheets

    @ExcelGoogleSheets

    4 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @ryanherter5873
    @ryanherter58736 жыл бұрын

    how do I .getFolderById

  • @al7lwany
    @al7lwany Жыл бұрын

    How can I add a new row in Google spread sheet when I Add a new folder inside parent folder

  • @MichaelDaniels
    @MichaelDaniels4 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @VirendraBG
    @VirendraBG3 жыл бұрын

    How to hire you for Google app script assignment?

  • @ZaidZaid-nh5kv
    @ZaidZaid-nh5kv4 жыл бұрын

    How we contact you if face problems sir

  • @ZaidZaid-nh5kv
    @ZaidZaid-nh5kv4 жыл бұрын

    Sir we need to send direct link but we can't .

  • @deepukathait6916
    @deepukathait69163 жыл бұрын

    How to get photos from google photos plz help

  • @FardinSadeghi
    @FardinSadeghi3 жыл бұрын

    another question: can you access the hard drive files rather than Google Drive?

  • @ExcelGoogleSheets

    @ExcelGoogleSheets

    3 жыл бұрын

    Not using Google Scripts. Use NodeJS or Python instead.

  • @tomsawkins9828
    @tomsawkins98284 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @ExcelGoogleSheets

    @ExcelGoogleSheets

    4 жыл бұрын

    it's using driveapp and other users probably don't have permission to access the folder in google drive.

  • @ExcelGoogleSheets

    @ExcelGoogleSheets

    4 жыл бұрын

    You'll need to share the folder as well.

  • @grimmstales544
    @grimmstales5444 жыл бұрын

    folderIter.next isn't a function anymore

  • @mohdimran5519
    @mohdimran55192 жыл бұрын

    How to get files URL next to the file name?

  • @prempatel1501
    @prempatel15012 жыл бұрын

    how can i insert images in cells using this script

  • @ibrahimkhayat715
    @ibrahimkhayat7152 жыл бұрын

    Hi I tried to upload a file using the Firefox browser. But, the file is not uploaded correctly. can you help me -please?

  • @Mahmoudalgindy
    @Mahmoudalgindy6 жыл бұрын

    Thanks so much, can someone paste the code here!

  • @FardinSadeghi
    @FardinSadeghi3 жыл бұрын

    Is it possible to with app script to change the photo names?

  • @ExcelGoogleSheets

    @ExcelGoogleSheets

    3 жыл бұрын

    Sure

  • @FardinSadeghi

    @FardinSadeghi

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ExcelGoogleSheets Would it be setName instead of getName? Any hint would be great!

  • @siva2197
    @siva2197 Жыл бұрын

    I Want to segeregate MY ilages stylcode wise Folders

  • @nikitakhandelwal6865
    @nikitakhandelwal68652 жыл бұрын

    How to download this file present in Google Drive folder through the app script?

  • @ExcelGoogleSheets

    @ExcelGoogleSheets

    2 жыл бұрын

    The short answer: you can't because Apps Script runs on the server. It's possible with Google Drive API and Node or other programming environment.

  • @lordhriley
    @lordhriley3 жыл бұрын

    Shit, can we do the same thing in google drive with Python?

  • @ExcelGoogleSheets

    @ExcelGoogleSheets

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes. Use Google Colab.

  • @asyikbrowsing200
    @asyikbrowsing2003 жыл бұрын

    How to get folder list with folder name or folder id? I want to get all folder from root and sub folder..

  • @ExcelGoogleSheets

    @ExcelGoogleSheets

    3 жыл бұрын

    The short answer is, use recursion

  • @asyikbrowsing200

    @asyikbrowsing200

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ExcelGoogleSheets I searched on google related to this and did not find it until now. Can you share the code, sir?

  • @asyikbrowsing200

    @asyikbrowsing200

    3 жыл бұрын

    I found this www.labnol.org/code/19923-google-drive-files-list, but the coding seems to be showing not only folders but files

  • @asyikbrowsing200

    @asyikbrowsing200

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ExcelGoogleSheets For simplicity, I want to get jpg files in the root folder and subfolders without defining the folder name or folder id

  • @ExcelGoogleSheets

    @ExcelGoogleSheets

    3 жыл бұрын

    I thought you wanted the folder? Or do you just need the JPG files?

  • @atlfestlife
    @atlfestlife Жыл бұрын

    Could have done without the while loop explanation.

  • @Barxxo
    @Barxxo5 жыл бұрын

    fucking curly brackets.. i hate them... but thanks anyway for explaining :-)

  • @ExcelGoogleSheets

    @ExcelGoogleSheets

    5 жыл бұрын

    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 ;)