ianlewis

// vim: ft=javascript:
/*jslint sloppy: true, vars: true, white: true, nomen: true, browser: true  */
/*global SpreadsheetApp, UiApp, UrlFetchApp, Utilities */
/*
 * A script to automate requesting data from an external url that outputs CSV data.
 *
 * Adapted from the Google Analytics Report Automation (magic) script.
 * @author nickski15@gmail.com (Nick Mihailovski)
 * @author ianmlewis@gmail.com (Ian Lewis)
*/

nicerobot

Objective-C on Linux

Just run:

curl -ks https://gist.github.com/nicerobot/5652802/raw/install.sh | bash -

yaph

function checkURLs() {
  var errors = [];
  var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
  var rows = ss.getDataRange().getValues();
  for (i in rows) {
    var url = rows[i][0];
    var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url, {muteHttpExceptions: true});
    var status = response.getResponseCode();
    if (status !== 200)
      errors.push(status + ' - '+ url);

hhutch

curl -i https://api.github.com/repos/scrooloose/nerdtree/forks |grep -e "git_url" |awk '{gsub(/,/,"");split($2,a,"/"); system("mkdir "a[4]"; cd "a[4]"; git clone " $2);}'

peterherrmann

/**
* Invokes a function, performing up to 5 retries with exponential backoff.
* Retries with delays of approximately 1, 2, 4, 8 then 16 seconds for a total of 
* about 32 seconds before it gives up and rethrows the last error. 
* See: https://developers.google.com/google-apps/documents-list/#implementing_exponential_backoff 
<h3>Examples:</h3>
<pre>//Calls an anonymous function that concatenates a greeting with the current Apps user's email
var example1 = GASRetry.call(function(){return "Hello, " + Session.getActiveUser().getEmail();});
</pre><pre>//Calls an existing function
var example2 = GASRetry.call(myFunction);

FiloSottile

#!/usr/bin/env python
#-*- coding:utf-8 -*-

import sys
import urllib2

# This script uses HEAD requests (with fallback in case of 405) 
# to follow the redirect path up to the real URL
# (c) 2012 Filippo Valsorda - FiloSottile
# Released under the GPL license

mhawksey

/*   
   Copyright 2011 Martin Hawksey

   Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
   you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
   You may obtain a copy of the License at

       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software

mathiasbynens

#!/bin/bash

if [ "$1" = "-h" -o "$1" = "--help" -o -z "$1" ]; then cat <<EOF
appify v3.0.1 for Mac OS X - http://mths.be/appify
Creates the simplest possible Mac app from a shell script.

Appify takes a shell script as its first argument:

    `basename "$0"` my-script.sh