App Script for Modifying Google Groups

Google App Script is a little-known, yet powerful development platform for enhancing and automating google services. I use it for administration and building custom tools. Here are some things I’ve used it for

• a web app that scans emails for certain patterns and puts the results in email
• index email into a sql db to build charts & reports (e.g. 7d volume, top senders)
• automate account settings changes & cleanup
• bulk migration of email between accounts or from shared accounts to groups
• various google spreadsheet formulas
• various google docs macros like timestamps

Sadly, the platform is a bit tricky to set up–but only needs setting up once. Let’s intro the setup and a basic configuration

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