How To Download / Export Sheets In Spreadheet Via Google Apps Script

Question

The task is to automate the manual process accomplished by the menu option \"File | Download As | Plain Text\"

I want to be able to control the saved file name, whic

Answer 1

I have exported a spreadsheet as CSV directly into a local hard drive as follows:

1. Get the CSV content from current sheet using a variation of function convertRangeToCsvFile_() from the tutorial on this page https://developers.google.com/apps-script/articles/docslist_tutorial#section3

   var csvFile = convertRangeToCsvFile_(...);
   

2. Then select a drive folder that is syncing to a local computer using Drive

   var localFolder = DocsList.getFolderById("055G...GM");
   

3. And finally save the CSV file into the "local" folder

   localFolder.createFile("sample.csv", csvFile);
   

That's it.