使用Google Apps脚本将Google驱动器中的pdf附加到电子邮件

Question

I'm using a custom created google apps script to send out some emails. I have a PDF in my google drive that I am trying to attach to an email but it is not working. I keep on getting the error "Document is missing (perhaps it was deleted?)"

Here is my full code...

    function sendDetails(e) {
var itemURL = 'https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bw7JWLKeRBKASUFldGM1RTRIaFE/edit';
var docName = DocumentApp.openByUrl(itemURL).getName();
}

Note that the above PDF is a publicly accessible PDF file that anyone can get to. I know it exists but it's not allowing me to access it. All that I am trying to do is take the file and attach it to an email. There is obviously more to my code than the about but I trimmed down just to that to try to narrow the error and no such luck. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

DocumentApp deals with Google Documents - Google's WordPad-like editor. Since the file in question is a PDF, it's not available to DocumentApp.

Instead, you should be using DriveApp . Additionally, since there is no DriveApp method to open a file by URL, you need to use DriveApp.getFileById() . (The ID is "0Bw7JWLKeRBKASUFldGM1RTRIaFE" in your example.)