将数据从多个 Chrome 扩展程序提供给单个 Google 电子表格的最佳无服务器方式

Question

I have a Chrome browser plugin which performs like a social media posts bookmarks collector (a click on a post captures it's author username, text, date, permalink and the plugin user who owns it). I'm looking for the most efficient, safest and SERVERLESS way to have [potentially] thousands of plugin end-users update, for each individual click on a post, a line in a Google spreadsheet.

With my limited knowledge I narrowed the options to webhooks:

1. Create a Google Apps simple webhook app that will listen to plugin packets.
2. Have the end-user plugins send each social-media post click data in JSON to the webhook.
3. Have the webhook Google App publish an RSS feed with all the data collected
4. Have the Google Spreadsheet regularly check for new RSS entries and update a new line for each.

What i'm not sure of is 1) whether a simple webhook can be created using Google Apps? 2) can this method be secure enough to prevent non-plugin entries to the RSS feed? and 3) is there a simpler more efficient way of achieving this end?

Your help will be much appreciated :-) Thanks.

Answer 1

You can easily create Webhooks in Google Apps Script through the use of Webapps . As an example:

function doPost(e) {
  if (e.postData && e.postData.type == 'application/json') {
    var data = JSON.parse(e.postData.contents);

    var author = data['author'];
    var text = data['text'];
    var date = data['date'];
    var permalink = data['permalink'];
    var user = data['user'];
    // (...)
  }

This example code will parse the data received through a JSON post request. Afterwards, you can insert it to your Spreadsheet and generate an RSS feed usingXmlService (for more information on how to do it see this blog post). The RSS feed can be served using the doGet() method.