Question

I would like to write an apps script to email an excel version of my Google Spreadsheet. I know I can save the spreadsheet as an Excel file. I am not sure if I can use the script to email the excel version out as an attachment. How can this be done?

Answer 1

After an answer on another recent post (Thomas van Latum), I tried the suggested doc api and get an interesting result… here is the test code I used and that is working nicely except the file is in xlsx format, not in xls but this is not necessarily an issue these days :

function googleOAuth_(name,scope) {
  var oAuthConfig = UrlFetchApp.addOAuthService(name);
  oAuthConfig.setRequestTokenUrl("https://www.google.com/accounts/OAuthGetRequestToken?scope="+scope);
  oAuthConfig.setAuthorizationUrl("https://www.google.com/accounts/OAuthAuthorizeToken");
  oAuthConfig.setAccessTokenUrl("https://www.google.com/accounts/OAuthGetAccessToken");
  oAuthConfig.setConsumerKey('anonymous');
  oAuthConfig.setConsumerSecret('anonymous');
  return {oAuthServiceName:name, oAuthUseToken:"always"};
}

function test(){
var id = 'spreadsheet_ID'
var url = 'https://docs.google.com/feeds/';
var doc = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url+'download/spreadsheets/Export?key='+id+'&exportFormat=xls',
googleOAuth_('docs',url)).getBlob()
DocsList.createFile(doc).rename('newfile.xls')
}

note : if you don’t rename it, its default name is Export.xlsx , it might be more usefull to get its ID to use it later…
so the last line could be like this instead :

var xlsfileID = DocsList.createFile(doc).getId()

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EDIT : to trigger the authorization process, try a small function like this, run it from the script editor

function autorise(){
  // function to call to authorize googleOauth
  var id=SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getId();
  var url = 'https://docs.google.com/feeds/';
  var doc = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url+'download/documents/Export?exportFormat=html&format=html&id='+id,
                              googleOAuth_('docs',url)).getContentText();  
}