1. Introduction to Google Apps
Platform
Prasetyo Andy W.
@praw

2. Who am I?

3. What are we talking about?

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

5. What is Google Apps
Script?

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

7. 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

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

9. Prerequisites
Google Account
Supported web browser
Basic understanding of JavaScript

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

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

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

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

17. Building user interfaces
HTML Service
UI Service
GUI Builder

18. Storing data
Script and user properties
ScriptDb
Spreadsheets
JDBC

19. 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

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

21. Now, let’s talk about
Application API

22. 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

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

24. 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

25. Invoke the API
Using REST directly
Using client libraries

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

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

28. 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

29. 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

30. 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

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

32. 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

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

34. 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

35. 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

36. You can do it all, if we
implement Auth APIs

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

38. Auth API
OAuth 2.0
OAuth 1.0
Hybrid Protocol
OpenID

39. OAuth 2.0
Used for authentication and authorization
Relatively simple

40. 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

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

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

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

44. 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

45. 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

46. Examples
Au-to-do

47. Examples
Au-to-do

48. Examples
Hojoki.com

49. Examples
Hojoki.com

50. Thank you!
Prasetyo Andy W.
@praw