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Is there a way to save a calendar entry by javascript to personal outlook-calendar within a sharepoint-calendar webpart ?
I want to save a created Entry in a sharepoint-calendar direkt to the personal outlook calendar of the user created it.
Any tip how to do this ?

So, the answer is "kind of".
You technically don't have to write JavaScript to achieve this, as SharePoint has a built in service URL that will download an .ICS file to the user's machine, and whatever that user's default calendaring system (e.g. Outlook) will open that as a new Calendar item.
Although you can construct this link manually if you want to provide a calendar item download for one specific Event, you can certainly use JavaScript to dynamically fill in the parameter values in this URL, which may be easier that having to look up these values individually to manually construct a link.
The URL that you can provide a hyperlink to generate an .ics file is
https://**SITE_URL**/_vti_bin/owssvr.dll?CS=109&Cmd=Display&List={**LIST_GUID**}&CacheControl=1&ID=**EVENT_ID**&Using=event.ics
SITE_URL – The URL to the site where the calendar is hosted
LIST_GUID – The (guid) unique identifier of your calendar list
EVENT_ID – The (integer) ID of the calendar event
for example:
https://mysharepointserver/sites/myteamsite/_vti_bin/owssvr.dll?CS=109&Cmd=Display&List={B2E3EC57-9BA6-46A2-B072-578C9796A42E}&CacheControl=1&ID=26&Using=event.ics
As an example of who you can use JavaScript to generate this link per event, the following code can be put in a Script Editor WebPart on the same page as a Calendar View Web Part, and it will insert a down arrow character in front of every event link that will trigger the .ics file for that event. This script assumes you have the jQuery library already loaded on your page, and you will need to replace the string "NameOfYourEventsList" below with the actual title of your Events list.
function lookupListBeforeAppendingCalendarLink() {
var context = new SP.ClientContext.get_current();
var web = context.get_web();
list = web.get_lists().getByTitle("NameOfYourEventsList");
context.load(list, 'Id');
context.executeQueryAsync(Function.createDelegate(this,listIdSuccess), Function.createDelegate(this,error));
}
function listIdSuccess() {
var listId = list.get_id();
appendAddToCalendarLink(listId);
}
function error(sender, args) {
console.log('Request failed. ' + args.get_message() +
'\n' + args.get_stackTrace());
}
function appendAddToCalendarLink(listId) {
jQuery('.ms-acal-rootdiv .ms-acal-item').each(function () {
var currentCalendarAnchor = jQuery('a', jQuery(this));
var itemId = currentCalendarAnchor.attr('href').split('?ID=')[1];
currentCalendarAnchor.before("<a href='" + _spPageContextInfo.webServerRelativeUrl + "/_vti_bin/owssvr.dll?CS=109&Cmd=Display&List=" + listId + "&CacheControl=1&ID=" + itemId + "&Using=event.ics'>↓</a>");
});
}
function customizeCalendar() {
//if you know the list id, you can hard code it here,
// otherwise use function to look it up first by List title
// var listId = 'B2E3EC57-9BA6-46A2-B072-578C9796A42E'
// appendAddToCalendarLink(listId);
lookupListBeforeAppendingCalendarLink();
}
ExecuteOrDelayUntilScriptLoaded(customizeCalendar, "sp.js")

Removing Query Strings from the URL Using Google Tag Manager

I'm trying to tidy up the analysis in Google Analytics by removing query strings from the URL, but this has split into three requirements;
I want to remove query strings from being displayed in the GA analysis.
Campaign UTMs still need to work.
Stop any PII gathered in a UTM from hitting GA.
I've found a number of JavaScript methods (attached below) that will do task 3, but I don't know whether this implementation will affect tasks 1 and 2.
This leads to my question;
Will the JavaScript method stop all query strings from hitting GA entirely, and therefore break my campaign UTMs?
Thanks for your help!
JavaScript attached below
function() {
var params = ['name', 'email'];
var a = document.createElement('a');
var param,
qps,
iop,
ioe
i;
a.href = {{Page URL}};
if (a.search) {
qps = '&' + a.search.replace('?', '') + '&';
for (i = 0; i < params.length; i++) {
param = params[i];
iop = qps.indexOf('&' + param + '=');
if(iop > -1) {
ioe = qps.indexOf('&', iop + 1);
qps = qps.slice(0, iop) + qps.slice(ioe, qps.length);
}
}
a.search = qps.slice(1, qps.length - 1);
}
return a.href;
}

If you update the page location in the DOM with the result of a function like this (window.location={{clean URL}}) you would naturally cause a lot of problems by causing reloading.
If you use the result of this function to set UA parameters relating to page and referrer, then it affects nothing that isn't related to those parameters in the hits. For example, you would want to clean the page field which is not just on page hits:
Things like utm parameters are extracted from normal DOM/BOM (for example window.location) and sent as separate parameters and are not calculated from page related parameters later on the server side unless you are doing extraction yourself in Analytic's custom filters.

Also you may use Google Analytics built-in mechanics to drop URL parameters through setting up Exclude URL Query Parameters in View settings. Docs are here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1010249?hl=en
No JS Required.

What is the best way to parse html in google apps script

var page = UrlFetchApp.fetch(contestURL);
var doc = XmlService.parse(page);
The above code gives a parse error when used, however if I replace the XmlService class with the deprecated Xml class, with the lenient flag set, it parses the html properly.
var page = UrlFetchApp.fetch(contestURL);
var doc = Xml.parse(page, true);
The problem is mostly caused because of no CDATA in the javascript part of the html and the parser complains with the following error.
The entity name must immediately follow the '&' in the entity reference.
Even if I remove all the <script>(.*?)</script> using regex, it still complains because the <br> tags aren't closed.
Is there a clean way of parsing html into a DOM tree.

I ran into this exact same problem. I was able to circumvent it by first using the deprecated Xml.parse, since it still works, then selecting the body XmlElement, then passing in its Xml String into the new XmlService.parse method:
var page = UrlFetchApp.fetch(contestURL);
var doc = Xml.parse(page, true);
var bodyHtml = doc.html.body.toXmlString();
doc = XmlService.parse(bodyHtml);
var root = doc.getRootElement();
Note: This solution may not work if the old Xml.parse is completely removed from Google Scripts.

In 2021, the best way to parse HTML on the .gs side that I know of is...
Click + next to Library
Enter 1ReeQ6WO8kKNxoaA_O0XEQ589cIrRvEBA9qcWpNqdOP17i47u6N9M5Xh0
Click "Look up"
Click Add
Sample usage:
const contentText = UrlFetchApp.fetch('https://www.somesite.com/').getContentText();
const $ = Cheerio.load(contentText);
$('.some-class').first().text();
That's it -- this is probably the closest we'll get to doing jQuery-like DOM selection in GAS. The .first() is important or else you may extract more content than you expected (think of it as using querySelector() instead of querySelectorAll()).
Credit where credit is due: https://github.com/tani/cheeriogs

As of May 2020, you can now use the Cheerio library for Google Apps Script to do this.
Returns the content of Wikipedia's Main Page
const content = getContent_('https://en.wikipedia.org');
const $ = Cheerio.load(content);
Logger.log($('#mp-right').text());
Returns the content of the first paragraph <p> of Wikipedia's Main Page
const content = getContent_('https://en.wikipedia.org');
const $ = Cheerio.load(content);
Logger.log($('p').first().text());
To add to your project:
Select Resources - Libraries... in the Google Apps Script editor. Enter the project key 1ReeQ6WO8kKNxoaA_O0XEQ589cIrRvEBA9qcWpNqdOP17i47u6N9M5Xh0 in the Add a library field, and click "Add". Select the highest version number, and click "Save".

I found that the best way to parse html in google apps is to avoid using XmlService.parse or Xml.parse. XmlService.parse doesn't work well with bad html code from certain websites.
Here a basic example on how you can parse any website easily without using XmlService.parse or Xml.parse. In this example, i am retrieving a list of president from "wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States"
whit a regular javascript document.getElementsByTagName(), and pasting the values into my google spreadsheet.
1- Create a new Google Sheet;
2- Click the menu Tools > Script editor... to open a new tab with the code editor window and copy the following code into your Code.gs:
function onOpen() {
var ui = SpreadsheetApp.getUi();
ui.createMenu("Parse Menu")
.addItem("Parse", "parserMenuItem")
.addToUi();
}
function parserMenuItem() {
var sideBar = HtmlService.createHtmlOutputFromFile("test");
SpreadsheetApp.getUi().showSidebar(sideBar);
}
function getUrlData(url) {
var doc = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url).getContentText()
return doc
}
function writeToSpreadSheet(data) {
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var sheet = ss.getSheets()[0];
var row=1
for (var i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
var x = data[i];
var range = sheet.getRange(row, 1)
range.setValue(x);
var row = row+1
}
}
3- Add an HTML file to your Apps Script project. Open the Script Editor and choose File > New > Html File, and name it 'test'.Then copy the following code into your test.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<input id= "mButon" type="button" value="Click here to get list"
onclick="parse()">
<div hidden id="mOutput"></div>
</body>
<script>
window.onload = onOpen;
function onOpen() {
var url = "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States"
google.script.run.withSuccessHandler(writeHtmlOutput).getUrlData(url)
document.getElementById("mButon").style.visibility = "visible";
}
function writeHtmlOutput(x) {
document.getElementById('mOutput').innerHTML = x;
}
function parse() {
var list = document.getElementsByTagName("area");
var data = [];
for (var i = 0; i < list.length; i++) {
var x = list[i];
data.push(x.getAttribute("title"))
}
google.script.run.writeToSpreadSheet(data);
}
</script>
</html>
4- Save your gs and html files and Go back to your spreadsheet. Reload your Spreadsheet. Click on "Parse Menu" - "Parse". Then click on "Click here to get list" in the sidebar.

Xml.parse() has an option to turn on lenient parsing, which helps when parsing HTML. Note that the Xml service is deprecated however, and the newer XmlService doesn't have this functionality.

For simple tasks such as grabbing one value from a webpage, you could use a regular expression. Regex is notoriously bad for parsing HTML as there's all sorts of weird cases it can get tripped up, but if you're confident about the HTML you're accessing this can sometimes be the simplest way.
Here's an example that fetches the contents of the page's <title> tag:
var page = UrlFetchApp.fetch(contestURL);
var regExp = new RegExp("<title>(.*)</title>", "gi");
var result = regExp.exec(page.getContentText());
// [1] is the match group when using parenthesis in the pattern
var value = result ? result[1] : 'No title found';

I know it is not exactly what OP asked, but I found this question when I was looking for some html parsing options - so it might be useful for others as well.
There is an easy to use the library for TEXT parsing. It's useful if you want to get only one piece of information from the html(xml) code.
EDIT 2021: The script library id is:
1Mc8BthYthXx6CoIz90-JiSzSafVnT6U3t0z_W3hLTAX5ek4w0G_EIrNw
It works like in the picture above
function getData() {
var url = "https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/signaturesatori-central-s/fejomcfhljndadjlojamaklegghjnjfn?hl=en";
var fromText = '<span class="e-f-ih" title="';
var toText = '">';
var content = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url).getContentText();
var scraped = Parser
.data(content)
.from(fromText)
.to(toText)
.build();
Logger.log(scraped);
return scraped;
}

If you are using
Cheerio library for Google Apps Script
Source code
Library page (⭐ star it!)
Installation by library ID:
1ReeQ6WO8kKNxoaA_O0XEQ589cIrRvEBA9qcWpNqdOP17i47u6N9M5Xh0
A function to get current emojis from unicode.org:
function getEmojis() {
var t = new Date();
var url = 'https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html';
var fetch = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url);
var contentText = fetch.getContentText();
//console.log(new Date() - t);
// Cherio
var $ = Cheerio.load(contentText);
var data = [];
$("table > tbody > tr").each((index, element) => {
var row = [];
$(element).find("td").each((index, child) => {
row.push($(child).text());
});
if (row.length > 0) {
data.push(row);
}
});
//console.log(data);
//console.log(new Date() - t);
// Result
return data;
}
↑ Sample code shows how to parse table and put it into [[array]]
May be used as a custom function:
Bonus
Parsing the site may be a time-consuming operation + you may reach the limit.
Here's a test file with a full version of the script:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iO7YjYWyfseQu_YCfRbGDPg7NskOgMu_iO1iGjr7KxY/edit#gid=93365395
↑ it uses CasheService to reduce the number of calls.

Natively there's no way unless you do what you already tried which wont work if the html doesnt conform with the xml format.

There are two options
a) One is to use JavaScript's string functions. First locate your tag using string.indexOf() and then extract the data you want using string.substring().
b) The other option is to make use of the Xml Service.

It's not possible to create an HTML DOM server-side in Apps Script. Using regular expressions is likely your best option, at least for simple parsing.

Using Javascript to scan JSON data from youtube API

I am trying my hand at searching youtube with the youtube API via Javascript, and as per the google docs on the matter:
<div id="agenda"></div>
<script>
function listEvents(root) {
var feed = root.feed;
var entries = feed.entry || [];
var html = ['<ul>'];
for (var i = 0; i < entries.length; ++i) {
var entry = entries[i];
console.log(entry);
var title = (entry.title.type == 'html') ? entry.title.$t : escape(entry.title.$t);
var start = (entry['gd$when']) ? entry['gd$when'][0].startTime : "";
//var id = id.video;
//alert(id);
html.push('<li>', start, ' ', title, '</li>');
}
html.push('</ul>');
document.getElementById("agenda").innerHTML = html.join("");
}
</script>
<script src="https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?q=all the small things&max-results=2&v=2&format=5&orderby=relevance&safeSearch=none&alt=json-in-script&callback=listEvents">
</script>
this should return data on the song(query) all the small things. and it does! however what im trying to do with this data is grab the id from the json data, but as i am completely new to json (and js for that matter) i seem to be having a hard time doing this. viewing the page with the network tools i can clearly see the section that contains the id:
"id":{"$t":"tag:youtube.com,2008:video:9Ht5RZpzPqw"}
and i can clearly see the data that i want(9Ht5RZpzPqw) however no matter how much i scoure json tutorials it makes no sense to me, google seems to do json different than every tutorial ive read. I threw together a jsbin so you can see the results yourself: jsbin
Anyone have anyideas? you can see in my code one of the many things i have tried to retrieve that data. Nothing I do seems to work though... Anyone have any ideas or pointers?
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The value of $t isn't JSON, it's a String Google is using to encode information about the ID. You could do something like this:
var vidId = root.feed.id.$t.split('video:')[1];
This gets the value of $t from the ID object, then looks for the string to the right of video:.

Using Javascript & Google Calendar API v3, how do I allow the user to specify a non-primary calendar to add an event?

I'm a beginner when it comes to the Google Calendar API and still a beginner with javascript. I'm trying to allow my users to add an event to a calendar of their choosing. I can authenticate using Oauth2 and can set it up so they can add the event to a calendar with a hard-coded calendar id but I can't figure out how to allow them to choose a calendar. I've perused the web but have come up with nothing. Any help is much appreciated.
CRS

Here's what I've done. Again, I'm just learning javascript, but the following function lets me get a list of calendars with the calendarID and calendarSummary. I use these values to create links that pass the calendarID variable to a page that will be handled by the server. That page passes the URL variable to a javascript function that inserts the event using the calendarID.
function getAvailableCalendars() {
gapi.client.load('calendar', 'v3', function() {
var request = gapi.client.calendar.calendarList.list();
request.execute(function(resp) {
var mydiv = document.createElement('div');
mydiv.innerHTML = 'Choose a calendar to insert the event:<br />'
for (var i = 0; i < resp.items.length; i++) {
var calendarID = resp.items[i].id;
var calendarSummary = resp.items[i].summary;
var a = document.createElement('a');
a.title = calendarSummary;
a.innerHTML += a.title + '<br />';
a.href='http://mysite.com/intakeCalInsert.cfm?calendar=' +calendarID;
mydiv.appendChild(a);
document.getElementById('events').appendChild(mydiv);
}
});
});
}
I'm sure this could be handled much more efficiently but it works for me. Maybe someone can get some ideas from this code and make it much better.