Apps Script seems to be capable of quite a bit more than the name suggests. Wouldn't expect it to have a full UI toolkit and designer, hosted memcache, or SQL access[0].

(In the docs, Google seems to dance around ever calling the language "JavaScript" but I can't find any reason it wouldn't be. Anyone know anything on that?)

[0] https://developers.google.com/apps-script/defaultservices PS: naturally most of the "core" Apps services are exposed as well

On the overview page(1) they explicitly call it "a JavaScript cloud scripting language". As far as I know, there's no practical difference between Apps Script and JavaScript (except one runs on the server and one runs in the browser).

(1): https://developers.google.com/apps-script/overview

Here's another awesome Google Doc in this area: A Google Spreadsheet that will harvest all tweets containing a given search string.

The code is interesting, and I had no idea Google Docs had the equivalent of CRON:

http://mashe.hawksey.info/2012/01/twitter-archive-tagsv3/

posting on behalf of my colleague jollife[1] who can't publish on HN because his account is "too young"? Is there any way around this?

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.org/user?id=jollife

Can you provide more details about this? I've seen many people post when they've got completely fresh, newly minted accounts. Perhaps things have changed recently, but I wonder if there's something going on other than what you think.

A proper report would be helpful.

..seems odd, i've seen many 'green' (representing new?) users with articles on the front page?

Looking at the user-page, i can only assume it means 'too few points', since they have had an account for over 9 months?

If anyone can shed any light on this, please go ahead.

The TLD in news.ycombinator.org sticks out. Did he try news.ycombinator.com?

Using the same computer? Try clearing cookies.

Or you can do the same right from MS Excel (in Python) using DataNitro: http://mit.edu/~victorj/www/blog/2012/08/06/Twitter-reader-i...

Are Apps scripts run in browser or on the server? Because this could be used as a Twitter proxy for anyone whose network filters for Twitter.com but not docs.google.com.

Or, for that matter, data from any other blocked website...

EDIT: wording

We use a Google Spreadsheet as a buffer for our tweets at work, hacking the ’sheet to post would be an awesome addition - and not one I’d’ve ever thought of.

This is a cool hack - and one that will make my co-workers lives a bit simpler.

I dont get the "authorize" option in Run. It just says "running my function." Am I missing something?

Didn't know that a google document could connect to internet services, very nice.

hilarity, and thanks for showing me that apps script is worth looking at.

crazy :)