GoogleDriveDirectoryWordCount

A simple Google Script that shows your word count for all the documents in a drive.google.com directory.

WHO

Written by Johnny Renaissance

WHAT

This is a simple Google script that counts all the words in a Google drive directory. This way you don't have to keep a running tally or manually open every document in the directory to get the word count. It's helpful if you use multiple documents in the same directory when writing a book or other work.

Setup and Execution

1. Go to https://script.google.com/home.

2. Click on new project.

3. Click on "Untitled project" on the top, and give the script a better name. * This is optional and you can use whatever floats your flotilla.

4. Delete everything in the Google script (which is probably just function myFunction() {}) .

5. Copy the contents of CountScript.gs in this github and paste them into the Google script that you are editing.

6. Open https://drive.google.com and navigate to the directory that contains the documents you wish to word count.

7. Copy the directory ID from the URL. The URL should look something like this: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1ZEEV9a5gtBmQQSlIH7ZNDdmXbT_3qPu0. The directory ID is the alphabet soup part: 1ZEEV9a5gtBmQQSlIH7ZNDdmXbT_3qPu0.

8. In your Google script, look for part that says <put in your directory ID here>, replace that section (including the <> angle brackets) with your directory ID.

   var folder = DriveApp.getFolderById('<put in your directory ID here>'); // the line you are looking for

   var folder = DriveApp.getFolderById('1ZEEV9a5gtBmQQSlIH7ZNDdmXbT_3qPu0'); // what it should look like when you add your ID

9. Click Run at the top.

10. Watch your word counts show up at the bottom of the page as well as a summary word count.

11. Profit!!!

Caveat

• This is not production code.
• This code is not configured to be deployed. It's simply a tool to give the word count.
• You MUST have access to this drive directory using your currently logged in account.
• This code only counts the words of the files in the current directory, not sub-directories.

Contact

This is on github, so I'm assuming they give you some way to contact me. Feel free to do that.