Google Apps Script
Hacker ApprovedScripting platform in Developer tools
Free scripting platform for automating Google Workspace, calling web APIs and publishing simple web apps.
Free scripting platform for automating Google Workspace, calling web APIs and publishing simple web apps.
12 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 11
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 92%
Recommended in 9 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 11 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 11 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 9 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Automating Google Sheets and Drive
“use Google App Scripts to duplicate all the convos saved in your google drive to another folder”
Comment from 18 May 2026 in “Gemini API File Search is now multimodal” “Use Google Sheets + Google App Scripts to make external API calls for each column!”
Comment from 2 Nov 2025 in “Ask HN: Alternatives to Clay for Enrichment?” Calling web APIs and scraping
“I've had pretty good luck using Google Appscript to either access web APIs or screenscrape”
Comment from 15 Oct 2026 in “New Withings Users Must Pay $99/Year for Apple Health Syncing” “Use Google Sheets + Google App Scripts to make external API calls for each column!”
Comment from 2 Nov 2025 in “Ask HN: Alternatives to Clay for Enrichment?” Publishing simple web apps
“The easiest one in my experience has been to write a simple Apps Script project and expose that as a published Web App”
Comment from 22 Feb 2026 in “I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard” “Google provides access to the URL to use the sheet as a database and also allows you to deploy Javascript”
Comment from 29 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: Sheet Ninja – Google Sheets as a CRUD Back End for Vibe Coders” Automating complex tooling
“if you have built up a lot of tooling for automating things it can be a pretty sweet platform”
Comment from 21 Feb 2026 in “Meta Deployed AI and It Is Killing Our Agency” “more complex stuff can be automated quite well with AppsScript”
Comment from 31 Jan 2026 in “Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native”
What people said
All 12 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I've had pretty good luck using Google Appscript to either access web APIs or screenscrape”
“Google scripts is almost there”
“Have even gotten better with add-on like AppScript and the rest.”
“use Google App Scripts to duplicate all the convos saved in your google drive to another folder”
“Google provides access to the URL to use the sheet as a database and also allows you to deploy Javascript”
“the IT department developed a password distribution app using Gemini on Google App Script”
“The easiest one in my experience has been to write a simple Apps Script project and expose that as a published Web App”
“if you have built up a lot of tooling for automating things it can be a pretty sweet platform”
“Google Apps Script is also reasonably useful”
“more complex stuff can be automated quite well with AppsScript”
“do some pretty cool stuff, including define custom functions and fully integrate with Google APIs”
“Use Google Sheets + Google App Scripts to make external API calls for each column!”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.