Ben Collins – Automation With Apps Script
Description of Automation With Apps Script
Automate tedious tasks and build killer applications using Google Sheets
Save hours with Apps Script!
Take your analysis skills and career to the next level with Apps Script.
Be in high demand with clients. Get your pick of projects. Build fantastic Google Sheets-based applications that are impossible with formulas or add-ons alone.
Learn to do Automation with Apps Script in this premium, online video training course.
- Save Time
- Save time at work. Automate the tedious tasks.
- Automate your data
- Connect Google Sheets to external web services to import your own data.
- Boost your career
- Take your career to the next level.
What will you learn in Automation With Apps Script?
Module 1: Introduction
- An introduction to the course and notes to help you get the most from the course.
Module 2: Apps Script Building Blocks
- Fundamental topics within Apps Script, including an overview of the documentation, Variables, Functions, Objects, script performance and much more!
Module 3: Working With Data in Google Sheets
- This module focuses on working with data in Google Sheets, covering everything from copying data to another Sheet to setting schedules to run your scripts.
Module 4: Working With CSV Files
- How to automate the tedious task of importing CSV data from individual files, from folders of files or from email attachments.
Module 5: Automated Survey Response Tool
- Build a time saving tool that automatically creates draft Gmail replies to survey responses from a Google Form.
Module 6: Sheets To Calendar
- Connect Google Sheets to Google Calendar and use Apps Script to transfer data and create calendar events.
Module 7: Introduction To APIs
- An introduction to APIs and how to retrieve data from third-party web services and transfer into Google Sheets, including an example using a NASA API!
Module 8: College Scorecard API Example
- An API case study using publicly available College data, including how to deal with paginated data.
Module 9: MailChimp API
- An API case study using the MailChimp API, showing how to do basic authentication with API Key in the headers.
Module 10: PayPal API (OAuth Example 1)
- An API case study using the PayPal API, showing how to connect using the OAuth 2 authentication protocol.
Module 11: Facebook API (OAuth Example 2)
- An API case study using the Facebook API, showing how to connect using the OAuth 2 authentication protocol and Google’s OAuth 2 Apps Script library.
Module 12: Automated Template Generator
- Build a tool to save time by automatically generating pre-filled documents, for example when you onboard new clients or employees or students.
Who is Automation With Apps Script for?
This course is for you if you answer YES to any of the following questions:
- Do you want a faster way to get data into Google Sheets?
- Do you want to stop doing the same manual tasks over and over?
- Do you want to build applications on top of Google Sheets?
- Are you already a Google Sheets power user who wants to take the next step after formulas?
About Ben Collins
Hi! I’m an experienced data analytics instructor and freelance spreadsheet developer.
I help individuals and businesses better understand their data through analytical insights and visualizations.
Over 20,000 professionals from 1,000+ companies have enrolled in my training courses, including employees from PwC, Netflix, Verizon, Google, Capital One and other Fortune 500 companies.
My training has helped 1,000’s of people advance their careers. I’ve also helped small and large organizations migrate from Microsoft Excel and Office to Google Sheets and G Suite. Google recognized me as a Google Developer Expert for G Suite Technology in 2019, one of only a handful worldwide.
I work primarily with Google Sheets and Apps Script, and also have extensive experience with Google Data Studio, Microsoft Excel, SQL and Tableau. I’ve previously taught data courses and workshops for General Assembly in Washington, D.C..