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Get .CSV from gmail and copy it to a Google Spreadsheet
var targetFile = "SPREADSHEETKEY"; // Output file
var targetSheet = "SHEETNAME"; // output sheet
function Main() {
var CurrentDate = new Date() ;
var CurrentDateFormat = Utilities.formatDate(CurrentDate, "GMT", "MM.dd.YYYY") ; // YOU CAN CHOOSE ANOTHER FORMAT HERE
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.openById('SHEETNAME');
var CSVDD = ss.getSheetByName('SHEETNAME');
//clear CSV DDump
CSVDD.clear();//THIS CLEARS THE SHEET IN ORDER TO GET UPDATED DATA
//THIS CAN BE CHANGED FOR WHATEVER THE SUBJECT OF THE EMAIL, I FOUND THE DATE FORMAT IS VERY USEFULL FOR AUTOMATED REPORTS
var searcher = "REPORT-"+CurrentDateFormat+".csv";
var searchedThreads = GmailApp.search( 'subject:""'+searcher+'""')[0];
var id = searchedThreads.getId();
var dateMessage = GmailApp.getMessageById(id).getDate();
var contentmessage = GmailApp.getMessageById(id).getPlainBody();
var firstThread = GmailApp.getInboxThreads(0,1)[0];
Logger.log(firstThread.getLastMessageDate());
//IF YOU WANT TO FIND A EMAIL WITH SPECIFIC LENGTH, ACTIVATE THIS
// var attachtextLength = GmailApp.getMessageById(id).getAttachments()[0].getDataAsString().length;
// if (attachtextLength >= 150){
var attachtext = GmailApp.getMessageById(id).getAttachments();
attachtext = attachtext[attachtext.length-1].getDataAsString();
// var attachtext = GmailApp.getMessageById(id).getAttachments()[0].getDataAsString();
UpdateSheet(attachtext);
// }
//GmailApp.sendEmail("myemail@gmail.com", "Sent to Me", attachtext); // JUST IN CASE YOU PREFER EMAIL
}
function UpdateSheet(dataString) {
var dataArray = CSVToArray(dataString);
var myFile = SpreadsheetApp.openById(targetFile);
var mySheet = myFile.getSheetByName(targetSheet);
var lastRowValue = mySheet.getLastRow();
for (var i = 0; i < dataArray.length; i++) {
mySheet.getRange(i+lastRowValue+1, 1, 1, dataArray[i].length).setValues(new Array(dataArray[i]));
}
mySheet.deleteRows(lastRowValue+1)
}
//BELOW HERE IT WASN'T ME BUT IT WORKS - https://developers.google.com/apps-script/articles/docslist_tutorial
//The code formats the code so it can be entered into the Google Script
function CSVToArray( strData, strDelimiter ){
// Check to see if the delimiter is defined. If not,
// then default to comma.
strDelimiter = (strDelimiter || ",");
// Create a regular expression to parse the CSV values.
var objPattern = new RegExp(
(
// Delimiters.
"(\\" + strDelimiter + "|\\r?\\n|\\r|^)" +
// Quoted fields.
"(?:\"([^\"]*(?:\"\"[^\"]*)*)\"|" +
// Standard fields.
"([^\"\\" + strDelimiter + "\\r\\n]*))"
),
"gi"
);
// Create an array to hold our data. Give the array
// a default empty first row.
var arrData = [[]];
// Create an array to hold our individual pattern
// matching groups.
var arrMatches = null;
// Keep looping over the regular expression matches
// until we can no longer find a match.
while (arrMatches = objPattern.exec( strData )){
// Get the delimiter that was found.
var strMatchedDelimiter = arrMatches[ 1 ];
// Check to see if the given delimiter has a length
// (is not the start of string) and if it matches
// field delimiter. If id does not, then we know
// that this delimiter is a row delimiter.
if (
strMatchedDelimiter.length &&
(strMatchedDelimiter != strDelimiter)
){
// Since we have reached a new row of data,
// add an empty row to our data array.
arrData.push( [] );
}
// Now that we have our delimiter out of the way,
// let's check to see which kind of value we
// captured (quoted or unquoted).
if (arrMatches[ 2 ]){
// We found a quoted value. When we capture
// this value, unescape any double quotes.
var strMatchedValue = arrMatches[ 2 ].replace(
new RegExp( "\"\"", "g" ),
"\""
);
} else {
// We found a non-quoted value.
var strMatchedValue = arrMatches[ 3 ];
}
// Now that we have our value string, let's add
// it to the data array.
arrData[ arrData.length - 1 ].push( strMatchedValue );
}
// Return the parsed data.
return( arrData );
}
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