javascript - How to integrate Stripe payments with Google Apps Script

Question

According to this answer, Gmail does not expose an API for sending and receiving payments. Therefore, I am trying to use Stripe to accomplish that.

Code.js

// Set your secret key: remember to change this to your live secret key in production
// See your keys here: https://dashboard.stripe.com/account/apikeys
const stripe = require('stripe')('sk_test_4eC39HqLyjWDarjtT1zdp7dc');

(async () => {
  const product = await stripe.products.create({
    name: 'My SaaS Platform',
    type: 'service',
  });
})();

However, GAS does not directly support async and require at this time. Is there any possible workaround so I can use Stripe to send and receive payments in my GAS app?

If that's not possible, what direction should I go from here?

Answer 1

How about this answer? Please think of this as just one of several answers.

Issue and workaround:

Unfortunately, the module of Node.js cannot be directly used for Google Apps Script. So it is required to prepare the script for Google Apps Script. Fortunately, at the official document of the link in your question, there are several samples. Using this, how about converting to the script of Google Apps Script?

Sample script:

When your script in your question is converted to Google Apps Script, it becomes as follows.

From:

// Set your secret key: remember to change this to your live secret key in production
// See your keys here: https://dashboard.stripe.com/account/apikeys
const stripe = require('stripe')('sk_test_4eC39HqLyjWDarjtT1zdp7dc');

(async () => {
  const product = await stripe.products.create({
    name: 'My SaaS Platform',
    type: 'service',
  });
})();

To

function myFunction() {
  var url = "https://api.stripe.com/v1/products";
  var params = {
    method: "post",
    headers: {Authorization: "Basic " + Utilities.base64Encode("sk_test_4eC39HqLyjWDarjtT1zdp7dc:")},
    payload: {name: "My SaaS Platform", type: "service"}
  };
  var res = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url, params);
  Logger.log(res.getContentText())
}

• In this case, both requests of Node.js and Google Apps Script are the same.

Note:

• At the sample script of Node.js, sk_test_4eC39HqLyjWDarjtT1zdp7dc is used for the key. But in this case, because the basic authorization is used, please use sk_test_4eC39HqLyjWDarjtT1zdp7dc: by adding :.

References:

• Billing Quickstart
• Class UrlFetchApp

If I misunderstood your question and this was not the direction you want, I apologize.