Is it possible to pass a URL to a google sheet and have the sheet append a new cell with content taken from a parameter in the URL??
Use case:
In KDE (and other environment as well, perhaps), most applications can invoke parameterized "Web shortcuts" that launch the browser with a custom-built URi. For instance, from with the pdf reader KDE app "Okular," users can select a portion of text and then invoke, for instance, the Google search shortcut to open up a page with the results of the search.
The mechanism is simple: users can specify a uri containing the optional parameter /{@} and the browser will launch with the parameter replaced by the current selection.
For instance, the google shortcut is
https://www.google.com/search?q=\{@}&ie=UTF-8
Common uses are dictionary queries for foreign languages, technical documentation searches, and so on.
I would like to use this mechanism to build a list of terms while reading documents—simply selecting the term or phrase and choosing the appropriate web shortcut would append it to a google sheet.
Anyone knows if it is possible?
Best Answer
I have done something similar using IFTTT.
The web-hook part documentation can be found here and will probably need some tinkering.