I'm importing data from JIRA into a Google Doc. One of the fields would be the description, which is basically HTML text.
Is there any way to "add" this HTML text on a Google Doc? Or do I really have to parse it manually and create paragraphs, tables, etc.?
The HTML could look as follows:
<p>Hello There</p>
<table class='confluenceTable'>
<tbody>
<tr>
<th class='confluenceTh'> Name </th>
<th class='confluenceTh'> Hours </th>
<th class='confluenceTh'> Cost </th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class='confluenceTd'> Some Person</td>
<td class='confluenceTd'> 1 </td>
<td class='confluenceTd'> CHF 1</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
I was able to create a new Doc with styled html content from the change mentioned in my comment in this post:
var blob = Utilities.newBlob(content, {mimeType:"text/html"});
var newfile = Drive.Files.insert(resource, blob, {"convert":"true"});
Thanks for your hint - based on this I found the following post: https://ctrlq.org/code/20102-convert-office-files-to-google-docs (plus http://scraping.pro/automaticly-converting-files-google-app-script/ which tells how to enable Drive API).
The following function works pretty well for me:
function convertHtmlToDocs(html) {
var uploadFile = JSON.parse(UrlFetchApp.fetch(
"https://www.googleapis.com/upload/drive/v2/files? uploadType=media&convert=true",
{
method: "POST",
contentType: "text/html",
payload: Utilities.newBlob("").setDataFromString(html, "UTF-8").getBytes(),
headers: {
"Authorization" : "Bearer " + ScriptApp.getOAuthToken()
},
muteHttpExceptions: true
}
).getContentText());
var doc = DocumentApp.openById(uploadFile.id);
var body = doc.getBody().copy();
DriveApp.removeFile(DriveApp.getFileById(doc.getId()));
return body;
}