Hi I was trying to extract PlainBody contents of my emails and was on the point of finishing extracting my emails until at some point I encountered an error saying Your input contains more than the maximum of 50000 characters in a single cell.
How will I set a limit on how many characters will I extract in Google App script to avoid this error.?
function getEmailsRange() {
//Change sheet3 to sheet you would like the data to be pasted
var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheetByName("Raw");
sheet.getRange('A1:D15000').clearContent();
var spreadsheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
//maximum emails to be extracted 500
//is:unread in:MANILA
var threads = GmailApp.search("after:2017/5/5 before:2017/5/6 in:REPORT",0,500);
var menuEntries = [ {name: "Load Emails", functionName: "getEmails"} ];
spreadsheet.addMenu("Email Extract", menuEntries);
var row = 1;
for (var i = 0; i < 50000; i++) {
var messages=threads[i].getMessages();
for (var m=0; m < messages.length; m++) {
sheet.getRange(row,4).setValue(messages[m].getDate());
sheet.getRange(row,2).setValue(messages[m].getPlainBody());
sheet.getRange(row,1).setValue(messages[m].getSubject());
sheet.getRange(row,3).setValue(messages[m].getFrom());
row++;
}
}
}
//var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
function Deleterow() {
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var s = ss.getSheetByName('Processed'); // change to your own
var values = s.getDataRange().getValues();
for (var row in values)
if (values[row][5] == 'DELETE')
s.deleteRow(parseInt(row)+1);
};
The issue is because you are setting the body of an email to a cell in the spreadsheet and a cell cannot have more than 50000 characters.
You can change the following line:
sheet.getRange(row,2).setValue(messages[m].getPlainBody());
to
sheet.getRange(row,2).setValue(messages[m].getPlainBody().substring(0, 50000));
This will add only the first 50000 characters into the cell. Other options would be to extract the emails to more than one cell or to extract the emails into a google doc.