GAS as an endpoint to create a spreadsheet for the caller

[Ali G]

Hi all,

I was wondering if it was possible to make the google apps script that would be able to create a file in the caller's drive. I have tried using the drive api, but it doesn't work, and to me I feel like the setting of running the web app as the user accessing it, and not being able to create a spreadsheet there kinda defeats the purpose

Best, 

Alazar Genene.

[Ed Robinson]

Alazar, 

Yes this is possible to do! 

Can you give some more information?  You use the term "web app", is a web app a necessary part of your architecture? Have you got the create-file-code working for yourself first?

Ed

[Bruce Mcpherson]

You can pass an access token from the original requestor as a web app 

parameter and it will run as that user.  Here's a more complex example 

that uses multiple steps for security,

to avoid exposing the access token, but you should get the idea from it. 
https://ramblings.mcpher.com/sharing-content-not-files-with-apps-script/