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October 4, 2016 02:12
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Google Apps Script to save all Gmail messages matching a label/search query as PDFs to a chosen folder on Drive. via https://ctrlq.org/code/19117-save-gmail-as-pdf
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| function saveGmailAsPDF() { | |
| var gmailLabels = "PDF"; | |
| var driveFolder = "My Gmail"; | |
| var threads = GmailApp.search("in:" + gmailLabels); // optional count limit:, 0, 5); | |
| if (threads.length > 0) { | |
| /* Google Drive folder where the Files would be saved */ | |
| var folders = DriveApp.getFoldersByName(driveFolder); | |
| var folder = folders.hasNext() ? | |
| folders.next() : DriveApp.createFolder(driveFolder); | |
| /* Gmail Label that contains the queue */ | |
| var label = GmailApp.getUserLabelByName(gmailLabels) ? | |
| GmailApp.getUserLabelByName(gmailLabels) : GmailApp.createLabel(driveFolder); | |
| for (var t=0; t<threads.length; t++) { | |
| threads[t].removeLabel(label); | |
| var msgs = threads[t].getMessages(); | |
| var html = ""; | |
| var attachments = []; | |
| var subject = threads[t].getFirstMessageSubject(); | |
| /* Append all the threads in a message in an HTML document */ | |
| for (var m=0; m<msgs.length; m++) { | |
| var msg = msgs[m]; | |
| html += "From: " + msg.getFrom() + "<br />"; | |
| html += "To: " + msg.getTo() + "<br />"; | |
| html += "Date: " + msg.getDate() + "<br />"; | |
| html += "Subject: " + msg.getSubject() + "<br />"; | |
| html += "<hr />"; | |
| html += msg.getBody().replace(/<img[^>]*>/g,""); | |
| html += "<hr />"; | |
| var atts = msg.getAttachments(); | |
| for (var a=0; a<atts.length; a++) { | |
| attachments.push(atts[a]); | |
| } | |
| } | |
| /* Save the attachment files and create links in the document's footer */ | |
| if (attachments.length > 0) { | |
| var footer = "<strong>Attachments:</strong><ul>"; | |
| for (var z=0; z<attachments.length; z++) { | |
| var file = folder.createFile(attachments[z]); | |
| footer += "<li><a href='" + file.getUrl() + "'>" + file.getName() + "</a></li>"; | |
| } | |
| html += footer + "</ul>"; | |
| } | |
| /* Conver the Email Thread into a PDF File */ | |
| var tempFile = DriveApp.createFile("temp.html", html, "text/html"); | |
| folder.createFile(tempFile.getAs("application/pdf")).setName(subject + ".pdf"); | |
| tempFile.setTrashed(true); | |
| } | |
| } | |
| } |
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