Publish a Google Spreadsheet through Google Apps Scripts #2

Question

I am trying to publish a web app through the script code. I read this post but I can't make it work, maybe it's a slightly different situation. I have got a script that copies a spreadsheet: in the script, I want to publish the new copy of the spreadsheet as a web app and, if it's possibile, retrieve its public url (anyone should be able to access to it).

Here it is my code:

  // Make a copy of the spreadsheet
  var repliesFile = responseTemplate.makeCopy('risposte', newFolder);
  var repliesId = SpreadsheetApp.openById(repliesFile.getId());

  // pubblish the new copy as a web app
  Drive.Revisions.update({published: true, publishedOutsideDomain: true, publishAuto: true}, repliesId, 1);

  // of course, this doesn't work.. I need a way to get the web app public url of the new copy
  var webAppUrl = ScriptApp.getService().getUrl(); 

I got an 404 error. What am I doing wrong? Drive Api v.2 is enabled in the script. Thanks for any help you can give me!

Answer 1

• You want to publish the copied Spreadsheet.
• You want to retrieve the URL of the published Spreadsheet.
• You want to achieve this by modifying your script.

If my understanding is correct, how about this answer? Please think of this as just one of several possible answers.

Modification points:

• In your script, I think that repliesId is not correct. It's the Spreadsheet object. Please use repliesFile.getId() as the file ID.
• Unfortunately, in the current stage, the URL like https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-###/pubhtml cannot be retrieved. But you can https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=### spreadsheetId ### as the URL of published Spreadsheet.

Modified script:

When your script is modified, please modify as follows.

From:

 Drive.Revisions.update({published: true, publishedOutsideDomain: true, publishAuto: true}, repliesId, 1);

To:

 var fileId = repliesFile.getId(); Drive.Revisions.update({published: true, publishedOutsideDomain: true, publishAuto: true}, fileId, 1); var url = "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=" + fileId;

• url can be used as the URL of the published Spreadsheet.

Note:

• In this case, please enable Drive API at Advanced Google services.

References:

• publish a Google Spreadsheet through Google Apps Scripts
• Advanced Google services
• Revisions: update

If I misunderstood your question and this was not the result you want, I apologize.