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Google Apps Script Example to Create Files in Google Drive and Send it to Gmail
Dec 21, 2025
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Uh hello friends today in this tutorial
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we will be looking that how to create a
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new file inside your Google drive and
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send it through Gmail using Google app
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script. So just go to this link guys
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which is script.google.com
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and through this tutorial you will get
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to know about what is Google appcript.
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So basically it is kind of a abstraction
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that it is kind of a new language which
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is introduced by Google in order to
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interact with their APIs with the help
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of JavaScript language. So if you go to
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this link here script.google.com
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you will be prompted to create a new
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project. If you click it new project you
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will be redirected
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onto it this editor online editor. Here
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you can just write JavaScript code in
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order to directly interact with the
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Google API. So this is the Google script
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file that you can see that this is the
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function that we will be writing here.
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So there is a run option also. So here
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we first of all need to create our
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Google drive file and then we just need
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to send this file across our Gmail. So
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first of all in order to create a new
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document we will be declaring a new
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document here voc
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is equal to document
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app. So basically document app dot
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create. So basically it will create a
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new document with a name. So here we
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just need to pass a simple name. Let's
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suppose I pass here hello world. So
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basically it will create this file onto
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my lo Google drive. You can see that
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this is my Google drive. So it will
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create this files once I uh run this
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function. And after that we need to add
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some text to it. Let's suppose we need
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to add some uh text to it. So first of
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all we will be using this function
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doc.get body dot append paragraph. So
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this function we will use and here we
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can just pass anything
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uh this document contains
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hello world message.
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So basically in this uh file we have
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first of all created this file and added
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some text to it. And now after that we
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will be getting the URL of this fi file
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getting the URL. So in order to get this
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we will be declaring a new URL variable
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and then we will be invoking a very
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simple method doc dot get URL. So this
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is a method. So this will get the URL of
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this file. And now we just need to get
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the email address
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where we need to send this file. So in
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order to get the same email address we
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will be uh declaring a new variable
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where email and we will be making use of
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session here session dot get active
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user. So and this will return the email
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for us get email. So
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put a semicolon and now this will return
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the active email address that the user
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has logged in. After getting the email
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address, we just need to send the email
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and before that we will be constructing
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our subject. So make a new subject
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variable and the subject will be simply
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the name of the file which will be
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dog.get name. So this will return the
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name of the file and we are storing this
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inside subject. And now we just need to
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construct the body simple body of the
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email which will be link to the doc.
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And then we can just concatenate the URL
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variable that we have. That's it. So
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after that the last thing we will be
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sending email to Gmail id. So this will
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be very simple.
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Let me just create some space. So this
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will be document
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oh sorry Gmail app. So this is the way
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by which you can just send emails. Gmail
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app dot send email. And here we just
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need to provide our recipient. So this
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is located inside email variable subject
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we are passing the name of the file and
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the body is that link to a document URL.
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And now our application is complete. So
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you can see that very few lines of code
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we have developed a web application
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where we create this file onto our uh
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Google drive and then we are sending
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this file to Gmail to the currently
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logged in email address. And now in
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order to run this so just press this run
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command and first of all we need to save
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our project. We will be saving this
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inside mail here and clicking on okay.
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So this will save our project. And now
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after that we again want to press this
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button. So it will run this function.
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And first of all if you first uh launch
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this application you must provide the
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permissions. So I will be clicking the
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review permission button and then I will
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select my email address.
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So it it will say that this app isn't
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verified. You just need to click on
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advance and go to the
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just click it. And now it will ask for
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the permissions. So just allow it like
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this.
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And once you grant the permissions it
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will successfully run your function.
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So it has successfully run the applica
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uh function here. And now if I refresh
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it, if I open my email address, let's
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suppose go to Gmail and I have I will be
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receiving a email address something like
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this. So just wait.
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So you will see that guys, I have
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received a email hello world and uh you
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will see that if I open this document,
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this will be contained inside it. You
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will see that this this document
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contains hello world message. the same
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message that we have typed here. You can
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see that. And now if I open my Google
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drive and search for this document, the
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name of the document is very simple
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which is hello world. Let me just see
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the name is hello world. And now let me
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just search for this document here.
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Hello world.
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You will see that this is a document
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that we have constructed here. It is
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just opening. You will see that hello
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world.
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So it is opening in Google Docs here. So
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you can see that the same document this
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document was created by Google appcript.
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And now in order to verify once more I
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can just change the title to uh title of
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the document
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something like this and just change this
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message to some other message. this
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document is sent by email address
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and again click the run button. So it
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will run the function instantly. And now
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you will see another message popping in
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inside my email address. You will see
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that title of the document. And this is
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you will see that if I open this now you
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will see that this document is sent by
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email address. And now if I show you
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uh title of the document.
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So you can see that this is a
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uh this is a way by which you can just
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create uh
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uh Google drive files and you can send
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it across your uh email address in Gmail
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with the help of Google app script. So
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this is a very good technology
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introduced by Google. You should use
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this instead of making calls to the API
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which is a very boring code you need to
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write. You can just make use of this
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script.google.com google.com and write
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your scripts in five to 10 seconds. You
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can just accomplish the same task
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without having to interact with the API.
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So just thanks very much for watching
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this