GSP498

Overview

Billions of businesses and individuals use Gmail and other G Suite services to communicate and process data. Google offers G Suite APIs to help you access information in these services programmatically, and you can use the APIs to easily automate your daily workflow. In this lab, you build a powerful Gmail extension that automatically categorizes emails in incoming messages and saves those categories in a Google sheet. This extension uses G Suite's RESTful APIs, Google Cloud Functions, and other Google Cloud Platform services.

What you'll do

In this lab, you build and deploy a few Cloud Functions connected to G Suite APIs and other Google Cloud Platform services. These functions:

• Authorize secure access to your Gmail and Google Sheets data

• Extract images attached to any incoming mail

• Categorize those images using the Cloud Vision API

• Write those categories, the sender's address, and the name of the attachment to a Google Sheet

What you will learn

• Basics of G Suite RESTful APIs

• Basics of Google Cloud Functions and other Google Cloud Platform services

• How to access Gmail programmatically using Google Cloud Functions

Learning recommendation

A basic knowledge of Javascript/Node.js is recommended to maximize your learning.