Google Apps Script

Google Apps Script is a scripting platform developed by Google for light-weight application development in the Google Workspace platform. Google Apps Script was initially developed by Mike Harm as a side project while working as a developer on Google Sheets.[2] Google Apps Script was first publicly announced in May 2009 when a beta testing program was announced by Jonathan Rochelle, then Product Manager for Google Docs.[3] In August 2009 Google Apps Script was subsequently made available to all Google Apps Premier and Education Edition customers.[4] It is based on JavaScript 1.6, but also includes some portions of 1.7 and 1.8 and a subset of the ECMAScript 5 API.[5] Apps Script projects run server-side on Google's infrastructure. According to Google, Apps Script "provides easy ways to automate tasks across Google products and third party services."[6] Apps Script is also the tool that powers the add-ons for Google Docs, Sheets and Slides.[7]

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Apps Script

Developer(s)	Google
Initial release	August 19, 2009; 13 years ago (2009-08-19)[1]
Written in	JavaScript
Type	Web application framework, scripting framework
Website	script.google.com