Most straightforward way to programatically send Google form

Question

I created a google form with google apps script and would like to have another script I can run to send out the form to a list of e-mail adresses. In the form editor UI I can (by clicking "Send") type in an e-mail adress and the corresponding recipient receives the link to the form. How can I do this programatically? I expected to have a method available but there is nothing like it in the forms documentation.

Answer 1

Use MailApp

See the documentation here - https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/mail/mail-app#sendemailrecipient,-subject,-body

MailApp.sendEmail("[email protected]",
                  "Subject",
                  "Content");

With your list of emails you could do something like:

listOfEmails.forEach(email => {
    MailApp.sendEmail(email,
                  "Subject",
                  "Please fill out this form: " + linkToForm);
})

Where listOfEmails is an array of strings containing the email addresses, and linkToForm is a string of the link to your form.