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Downloading Music Playlists from YouTube

Disclaimer

Use this knowledge at your own risk.

youtube-dl for Windows

youtube-dl will allow you to download entire youtube playlists and store them as MP3s. This will also allow you to download individual MP3s.

Retrieving Spreadsheet ID from Range using Google Apps Script

This is a sample script for retrieving spreadsheet ID from a range using Google Apps Script. I sometimes want to retrieve spreadsheet ID from ranges. In such case, I always use this.

Range
-> Retrieve Sheet using getSheet()
-> Retrieve Spreadsheet using getParent()
-> Retrieve spreadsheet ID

Google App Script CRUD

Inspired by this gist.

Getting Started

Create a new App Script project.
Paste the content of the file google-app-script-crud.gs in the default Code.gs file.
Create a new Spreadsheet.
Copy the Spreadsheet ID found in the URL into the variable SHEET_ID located in line 1 of your file.

Creating Quizzes in Google Form using Google Forms API with Google Apps Script

This is a sample script for creating quizzes in Google Form using Google Forms API with Google Apps Script. Recently, Google Forms API has been officially published, and it got to be able to be used by users. By this, quizzes in Google Form can be created using Google Forms API.

Here, there is one thing that can be achieved by Google Forms API. When Google Forms API is used, each choice in each question can be shuffled. This cannot be achieved with Google Forms Service (FormApp).

	import json
	from datetime import datetime
	import gspread
	from oauth2client.service_account import ServiceAccountCredentials
	from df2gspread import df2gspread as d2g

	def upload_to_sheet(df,sheet_id, sheet_name):
	scope = ['https://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds',
	'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive']
	credentials = ServiceAccountCredentials.from_json_keyfile_name('credentials.json', scope)

	# we need these modules to send the emails
	import smtplib
	import ssl

	# these modules will allow you to create the client and interact
	# with Google Sheet
	import gspread
	from oauth2client.service_account import ServiceAccountCredentials

	# these modules will help you create the HTML emails

	// Original: https://mashe.hawksey.info/2014/07/google-sheets-as-a-database-insert-with-apps-script-using-postget-methods-with-ajax-example/

	// Usage
	// 1. Enter sheet name where data is to be written below
	var sheetName = 'Users'
	// 2. Run > setup
	//
	// 3. Publish > Deploy as web app
	// - enter Project Version name and click 'Save New Version'
	// - set security level and enable service (most likely execute as 'me' and access 'anyone, even anonymously)

	function createFormTrigger() {
	var triggerFunctionName = "addFormResponseIdAndUrl_";
	deleteAllExistingTriggers_();
	var spreadsheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
	ScriptApp.newTrigger(triggerFunctionName)
	.forSpreadsheet(spreadsheet)
	.onFormSubmit()
	.create();
	}