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This example shows how you can use Google Cloud Function to generate open graph images from Google Slides template in Google Drive. You may open any page on this website and look for the og:image meta tag in the head to see the generated image that is different for each image. When the cloud function is invoked, the input text is provided in the query string and this replaces the {{Title}} placeholder in the template to generate the customized image. The generated image is stored in Google Cloud storage and the file’s public URL is returned. Create a Service Account…
If you are using Google AdSense to monetize your website, you may have noticed that there are instances when there are no ads showing up on one or more pages. This is likely because Google AdSense is not able to find any advertisers that are probably willing to bid on your page at that time. Or may be you have blocked specific categories of advertisers from bidding on your page. When Ads Are Available Here’s a page with a Google AdSense ad unit placed somewhere in the middle of the page. When Ads Are Unavailable And here’s the same page…
Home to different cultures, religions, and traditions, India is perhaps the best country to feel the energy of celebration with a mix of culture. After the colourful celebrations of Holi festival in March, the people of India are gearing up for some amazing religious festivities in the month of April right from Srinagar’s Tulip Festival to the energetic Baisakhi in Punjab and Bihu in Assam, among many others. As the spring season continues to add splashes of colour at every turn, April is the best month for India Tourism as one can feel the energy in nature itself with trees,…
An open graph image (OG image) is the image that is displayed when any of your website links are shared on Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter. You can provide the public URL of the image in the meta tags of your website and social media website will automatically pick up from there. <head> <title>Digital Inspiration</title> <meta property=”og:image” content=”https://www.labnol.org/og/default.png” /> </head> Open Graph Images with Puppeteer Github internally use Google’s Puppeteer library to generate dynamic Open Graph images. The images are generated on the fly by feeding custom HTML into Puppeteer which then generates a screenshot. You can view a sample OG…
The files and folders in your Google Drive are private by default until you decide to share them. You can share your documents with specific people or you can make them public and anyone on the Internet can view the shared files. Google Apps users have the option to share files and folders within the organization while restricting access to anyone outside the domain. You can not only control who has access to your Google Drive files but can also assign the level of access they have on the shared files. You can set the access permissions to either view (read only) or edit (read & write). For instance, if you…
Google Developer Expert Google awarded us the Developer Expert title recogizing our work in Workspace ProductHunt Golden Kitty Our Gmail tool won the Lifehack of the Year award at ProductHunt Golden Kitty Awards Microsoft MVP Alumni Microsoft awarded us the Most Valuable Professional title for 5 years in a row Google Cloud Champion Google awarded us the Champion Innovator award for technical expertise
It take two easy steps to embed Google Maps in your web pages. While you are on the Google Maps website, search for the place or area that you wish to embed, click the hamburger icon in the upper left corner and choose the Share or embed map option from the menu. You may embed standard maps, satellite maps, or even street views. Google Maps resize automatically based on the device size Embed Google Maps Responsively This web page contains a sample map embedded using the default embed code provided by Google Maps. The embedded map is non-responsive. What it…
Nature reveals a vibrant new aspect with its captivating colors in April, a month characterized by brighter sunshine that heralds the arrival of summer. April is an ideal time for a family vacation in India, as it coincides with the long summer break for schools across the country. To fully embrace the summer season, traveling to the picturesque hill stations in North and Northeast India is highly recommended, where the remnants of winter linger and summer has not yet fully set in. Additionally, the pleasant weather during this month is beneficial for both plant and animal life, making it an…
Your phone, the iPad, and your laptop offer a ‘hard reset’ option that resets your device to the default factory settings. Once you perform a factory reset, it erases all the apps, files, and settings and there’s no way to recover the wiped off data. What is Gmail Factory Reset If you ever need to “factory reset” an old Gmail account that you no longer use, and start afresh with a clean slate, Google Scripts can help. The script will perform a series of tasks to completely reset your Gmail account: Delete all Gmail labels Delete all Gmail filters Delete…
This guide explains how you can easily create and manage hyperlinks in Google Sheets. An entire cell in the sheet, or specific text inside the cell, can be linked to external web pages. A cell can also contain multiple hyperlinks. If you type a web page address in a Google Sheet cell, it is automatically converted into a clickable hyperlink. You can add anchor text to plain hyperlinks for more accessible URLs. Hover your mouse over the hyperlink and click the Edit icon. Now add the anchor text in the Text input box and click the green Apply button. Alternatively,…
Search operators in Google (see Google cheat sheet) help you refine and improve search results. For instance, a query like “Taj Mahal AND Hotel” will search for pages related to the Hotel Taj and not the Mughal monument. Similarly, “kindle -site.com” will find all Kindle related resources outside the Amazon website. AROUND Search Operator Google Search supports an undocumented search operator called AROUND(n) that will help you find documents where the distance between two search terms is around ‘n.’ Here’s an example: Google Around Search Operator for Proximity Searches A search query like “CNN Obama” will mostly show CNN pages that are…
Your organization is currently using Gmail with Google Workspace for email. You are moving to another company and would like to archive all your existing email messages before the contract is terminated and the emails are permanently deleted from Gmail servers. How to Copy Google Workspace Emails to another Gmail Address Our previous email migration guide discussed ShuttleCloud, a service built into Gmail that uses Gmail APIs to copy your emails from one Gmail account to another. That approach, however, will not work when you are transferring emails from Google Workspace (or Google Apps) to a free Gmail account. Here’s…