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Google Apps Scripts and Web Development Tutorials and Resources by Laurence Svekis
📘 Lesson 8 — Build a Gemini-Powered AI Dashboard Web App (Capstone Project) Blog Post #8 in the Apps Script + APIs + Gemini Series https://github.com/lsvekis/Google-Apps-Script-APIs-Gemini-8-Lessons- You’ve learned how to: Now it’s time to put everything together. In this final lesson, you’ll build a Gemini-powered AI dashboard — a real web app where users can: … Read more
https://github.com/lsvekis/Google-Docs-Style-Resizer-AddOn-Menu-with-Apps-Script When a Doc has been edited by many people (or copy/pasted from other sources), font sizes can drift all over the place. This quick Google Apps Script adds a custom UI menu to your Google Doc that opens a sidebar where you can set font sizes for: …and then apply those sizes across the … Read more
If you work with Amazon KDP, you’ve probably copied URLs like this more times than you’d like to admit: What you really want isn’t that long internal KDP URL — you want clean public Amazon links, like: Instead of doing this manually every time, we can automate it directly inside Google Sheets using a custom … Read more
📘 Lesson 7 — Gemini-Powered Google Docs (Summaries, Rewrites & AI Writing Tools) Blog Post #7 in the Apps Script + APIs + Gemini Series Google Sheets is about data.Google Docs is about thinking, writing, and meaning. In this lesson, you’ll bring Gemini directly into Google Docs, allowing users to summarize documents, rewrite sections, and … Read more
Create Real Tools Inside Docs (Not Just Scripts) Most Google Apps Script tutorials stop at automation.But the real power starts when you turn scripts into tools users can interact with—directly inside Google Docs. In this article, you’ll learn how to create custom menus and sidebars that transform a Google Doc into a mini application. Why … Read more
Goal: Reuse code across multiple Docs projects by adding a library to a bound script (a script attached to a Google Doc), then calling library functions from the Doc. What is a Google Apps Script Library? A library is a reusable Apps Script project you publish so other scripts can include it. Instead of copy/pasting … Read more
📘 Lesson 6 — Gemini-Powered Google Sheets Tools (Menus, Selections & AI Output) Blog Post #6 in the Apps Script + APIs + Gemini Series Calling Gemini is powerful.But calling Gemini inside Google Sheets is transformative. In this lesson, you’ll learn how to turn Gemini into a native Sheets assistant—able to explain data, summarize selections, … Read more
📘 Lesson 5 — Calling Gemini from Google Apps Script (Text Prompts → AI Responses) Blog Post #5 in the Apps Script + APIs + Gemini Series Up to this point, you’ve learned how to: Now it’s time to bring AI into your Apps Script projects. In this lesson, you’ll learn how to call Google’s … Read more
Below are ready-to-paste Google Apps Script examples you can add to your blog post, covering the two most useful embedding workflows: Replace YOUR_API_KEY_HERE with your key.These examples use the Generative Language API style endpoint. A) Minimal: Create an embedding for a text string B) Store document chunks + embeddings in Google Sheets This creates a … Read more
https://github.com/lsvekis/Doc-Cleanup-Toolkit User & Developer Guide This guide explains what the Google Docs Cleanup Toolkit does, how to use it safely, and how each part of the system fits together. 1. What This Toolkit Is The Google Docs Cleanup Toolkit is a Google Apps Script project that helps you: It is designed to be: 2. Who … Read more