Get notifications when someone accesses your Google Documents (aka: having fun with Google Apps Script) Our MS Word and PDF tokens are a great way to see if anyone is snooping through your documents. One simply places the document in an enticing location and waits. If the document is opened, a notification (containing useful information about the viewer) is sent to you. Both MS Word tokens and PDF tokens work by embedding a link to a resource in the tokened document. When the document is opened an attempt to fetch the resource is made. This is the request which tickles the token-server, which leads to you being notified. Because so many of us store content on Google Drive we wanted to do something similar with Google Documents and Google Sheets. Using the embedded image approach was possible in Google Sheets, however, due to image caching coupled with weak API support for Google Documents we turned to Google Apps Script . Google Apps Script is a powerful Javascript platform with which ...