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raffaele
raffaele

Reputation: 49

Google apps script: Search all documents in a folder

Can you search for a string in all documents in a folder with GAS and return the list of found documents? give me a hint of how to do so.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 10446

Answers (1)

Serge insas
Serge insas

Reputation: 46794

This is all described in the documentation , read also the details about search arguments described here.

They give an example too, below it an example with your requirements :

    function testSearch(){
    // Log the name of every file that contains a certain string
    // you can get the folder of your choice here by its ID or by its name, in the second case the returned object is a folder iterator so you will have to iterate its content. There are examples all around on how to do that.
      var files = DriveApp.getRootFolder().searchFiles( 
      'fullText contains "example"');
        while (files.hasNext()) {
          var file = files.next();
          Logger.log(file.getName());
      }
    }

Upvotes: 1

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