Google app script timeout ~ 5 minutes?

Question

My google app script is iterating through the user\'s google drive files and copying and sometimes moving files to other folders. The script is always stopped after 5 minute

Answer 1

Anton Soradoi's answer seems OK but consider using Cache Service instead of storing data into a temporary sheet.

 function getRssFeed() {
   var cache = CacheService.getPublicCache();
   var cached = cache.get("rss-feed-contents");
   if (cached != null) {
     return cached;
   }
   var result = UrlFetchApp.fetch("http://example.com/my-slow-rss-feed.xml"); // takes 20 seconds
   var contents = result.getContentText();
   cache.put("rss-feed-contents", contents, 1500); // cache for 25 minutes
   return contents;
 }

Also note that as of April 2014 the limitation of script runtime is 6 minutes.

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G Suite Business / Enterprise / Education and Early Access users:

As of August 2018, max script runtime is now set to 30 minutes for these users.