Class ContentService

AI-generated Key Takeaways

• ContentService allows you to serve text content from a script, for example, by publishing the script as a web app.

• When serving content through a web app, the browser URL will differ from the original script URL for security reasons.

• The createTextOutput() method is used to create a TextOutput object which can serve text content.

• The createTextOutput(content) method allows you to create a TextOutput object with initial content.

ContentService

Service for returning text content from a script.

You can serve up text in various forms. For example, publish this script as a web app.

function doGet() {
  return ContentService.createTextOutput('Hello World');
}

When visiting the web app URL you will see "Hello World" in the browser. Due to security considerations, scripts cannot directly return content to a browser. Instead, they must serve the content from a different URL. This is why the URL in the browser for output created via this web app will be different than the original script URL.

Properties

Property	Type	Description
MimeType	MimeType

Methods

Method	Return type	Brief description
createTextOutput()	TextOutput	Create a new TextOutput object.
createTextOutput(content)	TextOutput	Create a new TextOutput object that can serve the given content.

Detailed documentation

createTextOutput()

Create a new TextOutput object.

function doGet() {
  const output = ContentService.createTextOutput();
  output.append('Hello world!');
  return output;
}

Return

TextOutput — the new TextOutput object.

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createTextOutput(content)

Create a new TextOutput object that can serve the given content.

function doGet() {
  const output = ContentService.createTextOutput('Hello world!');
  return output;
}

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
content	String	the content to serve.

Return

TextOutput — the new TextOutput object.