Class ContentService

Service for returning text content from a script.

You can serve up text in various forms. For example, publish this script as a web app.

function doGet() {
  return ContentService.createTextOutput('Hello World');
}

When visiting the web app URL you will see "Hello World" in the browser. Due to security considerations, scripts cannot directly return content to a browser. Instead, they must serve the content from a different URL. This is why the URL in the browser for output created via this web app will be different than the original script URL.

Properties

Property	Type	Description
`MimeType`	`MimeType`

Methods

Method	Return type	Brief description
`createTextOutput()`	`TextOutput`	Create a new `TextOutput` object.
`createTextOutput(content)`	`TextOutput`	Create a new `TextOutput` object that can serve the given content.

Detailed documentation

`createTextOutput()`

Create a new TextOutput object.

function doGet() {
  const output = ContentService.createTextOutput();
  output.append('Hello world!');
  return output;
}

Return

TextOutput — the new TextOutput object.

`createTextOutput(content)`

Create a new TextOutput object that can serve the given content.

function doGet() {
  const output = ContentService.createTextOutput('Hello world!');
  return output;
}

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
`content`	`String`	the content to serve.

Return

TextOutput — the new TextOutput object.