How to exclude table cells paragraphs from getParagraphs() in DocumentApp, apps script

Question

I need to get all the paragraphs from a google document. For that, I am using body.getParagraphs(). The problem is, in any document, if any table exists, the body.getParagraphs() method takes all the table cells as a paragraph and returns as a paragraph. Now what I want is to get all the paragraphs only, from a document and exclude the table and table cells from that. How can I achieve this?

Thanks!

Answer 1

I believe your goal as follows.

• You want to retrieve the paragraphs except for the table cell using Google Apps Script.

In this case, how about checking the element type? When this is reflected to a script, it becomes as follows.

Sample script:

Please copy and paste the following script to the script editor of Google Document.

function myFunction() {
  const doc = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument();
  const body = doc.getBody();
  const paragraphs = body.getParagraphs();
  
  const res = paragraphs.filter(p => p.getParent().getType() != DocumentApp.ElementType.TABLE_CELL);
  
  // do something

}

• In this sample script, the values of paragraphs include the paragraphs of table cell.
• By filtering the element type, res can have only the paragraphs except for the table cell.

References:

• getParent() of Class Paragraph
• getType()