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Cyber28
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How I made Google Forms automatically post submissions in our Discord server

Motivation

A friend of mine invited me to work on a game with him and I, of course, accepted. Early on, we decided that we want beta testers, and a way to apply as a tester. Google Forms immediately came into mind, and I took up the task of writing some code to make it automatically post answers to the form in our Discord server.

Part 1: So... how do I even get started on this?

I knew I needed two things: A Discord webhook, and something to send the request to it with every form submission. I quickly found out about something called Apps Script, which let me interact with a bunch of Google apps (including Forms), and which I could utilise to bring this idea to life.

Part 2: Alright, let's jump into it

First, I wanted to figure out if I could even send an HTTP request from my Forms Add-on and found UrlFetchApp.fetch

function onSubmit(e) {
  UrlFetchApp('somecoolurlidk')
}
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Part 3: But can I use the Discord Webhook?

Yes. The Discord Webhook documentation is awesome, and I was up and running within minutes.

function onSubmit(e) {
  var discordPayload = {
    content: 'Form submitted'
  }
  UrlFetchApp('discordwebhookurl', {
    method: 'post',
    payload: JSON.stringify(discordPayload),
    contentType: 'application/json'
  })
}
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Part 4: Welp, time to actually hook it up to the form

By going to Edit > Current project's triggers, I could set up my form to trigger the onSubmit function when the form is submitted.
Setting up the trigger
Webhook in action

Part 5: Putting it all together

I don't have much to say here. Took about an hour of mindlessly browsing the Apps Script documentation, but somehow managed to write this final code:

function onSubmit(e) {
  var discordPayload = { 
    content: 'Form submitted',
    embeds: [{
      type: 'rich',
      title: 'Form submission',
      color: 7506394,
      fields: []
    }]
  }
  e.response.getItemResponses().forEach(function(i) {
    var v = i.getResponse() || 'None'
    discordPayload.embeds[0].fields.push({ name: i.getItem().getTitle(), value: v })
  })
  UrlFetchApp.fetch('youknowwhatgoeshereanywaysandimnotinthemoodtoleakstuff', {
    method: 'post',
    payload: JSON.stringify(discordPayload),
    contentType: 'application/json'
  })
}
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The final webhook in action

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Maksq7

Скажите как сделать чтоб не показывало не заполненые формы а только те которые заполняли

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bdeavilla

Do you have a method to split the items list so that larger surveys can be posted to Discord?

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Cyber28

Not right now, but it wouldn't be too hard to do.

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Anonymyous678

How can i set response for question name as webhook username?

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Cyber28

You could modify discordPayload, refer to discord's documentation for more info

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Jag11222

Did you figure out a way to split the items yet?