1.46 🔍Get the Form Edit Response URL in Google Sheets
Use Apps Script to extract the edit response URL from Google Form submissions:
function onFormSubmit(e) {
const sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
const url = e.response.getEditResponseUrl();
sheet.appendRow([url]);
}
You must use an installable trigger with onFormSubmit for this to work.
1.47 🧪How to Track your Study Time with Google Forms and Sheets
Create a form with “Start Time” and “End Time.” Then use the formula:
=ARRAYFORMULA(IF(A2:A="", "", B2:B - A2:A))
You can visualize time spent studying per session, per day, or per subject using charts.
1.48 🔍 Save Gmail Messages to a Google Spreadsheet
Use GmailApp to fetch messages and store subject/sender/date in a sheet:
const threads = GmailApp.search("label:important newer_than:7d");
threads.forEach(thread => {
const msg = thread.getMessages()[0];
sheet.appendRow([msg.getFrom(), msg.getSubject(), msg.getDate()]);
});
1.49 🧪 How to Track Google Spreadsheet Views with Google Analytics
Add the GA tracking pixel to a published web app or embed script using:
Or call GA’s Measurement Protocol via Apps Script to log hits to a specific Sheet view.
1.50 🔍How to Make YouTube Playlists with a Google Spreadsheet
List YouTube video URLs in a column, then generate a playlist link:
="https://www.youtube.com/watch_videos?video_ids=" & TEXTJOIN(",", TRUE, ARRAYFORMULA(REGEXEXTRACT(A2:A, "v=([\\w-]+)")))
This will create a clickable link to play all videos in the playlist format.
1.51🧪 Find Duplicate Rows in Google Sheets
Use conditional formatting with:
=COUNTIFS(A:A, A1, B:B, B1) > 1
Or use Apps Script to store a hash of combined cell values and flag repeats across the rows.
1.52 🔍How to Import Web Data into Google Sheets
Use IMPORTHTML, IMPORTXML, or IMPORTDATA formulas:
=IMPORTHTML("https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries", "table", 1)
These functions allow fetching tables, lists, CSVs, and even structured web data into your sheet.
1.53 🧪 Build a Web Page Monitor with Google Sheets using ImportXML
Use IMPORTXML to monitor a price, status, or any tag on a web page:
=IMPORTXML("https://example.com", "//h1")
Use IF or DIFFERENCE() logic to track changes and highlight them automatically.
1.54🔍 Screen Scraping the Google Play Store with Google Sheets
Use Apps Script with a public Play Store URL and UrlFetchApp.fetch(). Since Play Store has dynamic content, focus on metadata tags in the raw HTML:
var html = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url).getContentText();
Use regex or cheerio via Apps Script advanced services for better parsing.
1.55 🧪How to Write JSON to a Google Spreadsheet
Use JSON.parse() in Apps Script to flatten JSON into a table:
const obj = JSON.parse(json);
sheet.appendRow([obj.name, obj.email, obj.city]);
For nested JSON, write a recursive flattener to loop through key-value pairs.
1.56 🔍 Convert Word, Excel and PowerPoint files to Google Docs with Google Script
Use DriveApp and Advanced Drive Service:
Drive.Files.copy(fileId, {mimeType: "application/vnd.google-apps.document"});
This converts a Word doc to Google Docs. Works similarly for Excel → Sheets and PPT → Slides.
1.57 🧪 Save Paypal Email Receipts in Google Spreadsheet
Use Gmail search:
GmailApp.search("from:[email protected] subject:receipt")
Then loop through messages and extract details using regex or string match. Log sender, amount, and item in your sheet.