Empower Your Gmail Inbox with Google Cloud Functions
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, Cloud Functions, and other Google Cloud 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 services. These functions:
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Authorize secure access to your Gmail and Google Sheets data
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Extract images attached to any incoming mail
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Categorize those images using the Cloud Vision API
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Write those categories, the sender's address, and the name of the attachment to a Google Sheet
What you will learn
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Basics of G Suite RESTful APIs
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Basics of Cloud Functions and other Google Cloud services
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How to access Gmail programmatically using Cloud Functions
Learning recommendation
A basic knowledge of Javascript/Node.js is recommended to maximize your learning.
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