GAS Indefinitely: The Ultimate Guide to Proven Long-Term Strategies

GAS Indefinitely: The Ultimate Guide to Proven Long-Term Strategies

Okay, let's talk about GAS. No, not that kind of gas! I'm talking about Google Apps Script, and specifically, how to make your scripts run indefinitely . Sounds impossible, right? Well, not quite. It's more about clever workarounds and understanding the limitations. In my experience, making a script truly "indefinite" is a journey, not a destination. You're constantly tweaking, monitoring, and adapting to Google's ever-changing ecosystem. The problem, as many of you know, is that Google Apps Script has execution time limits. We're talking minutes, not hours. This can be a major pain, especially when you're trying to build something that needs to run in the background, like a data scraper or a real-time notification system. When I worked on a project for a local charity automating their donation tracking, we kept hitting this wall. We needed the script to continuously monitor incoming donations and update a master spreadsheet. The initial solution ke…