Google Apps Script: How to remove a link from a document

0
votes

I'm having trouble to remove a link from a Text element.

Calling .setLinkUrl(null) on it seems to work, but makes the document crash! You can see it happening with this tiny google script:

function test() {
  var body = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument().getBody();
  var text = body.appendParagraph("link").editAsText();
  text.setLinkUrl(null);
}

Running it then trying to edit the document gives me a "File unavailable" error. Also tried to set remove the link with .setAttributes, but same error.

Is there a way to remove a link or just generally reset the styles on a text element?

Thanks!

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2 Answers

1
votes

Using setLinkUrl(null) now fully removes the link. Example:

function myFunction() {
  var a = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument();
  a.getBody().editAsText().appendText('abc');
  var b = a.getBody().findText('abc');
  b.getElement().asText().setLinkUrl('https://google.com');
}

function myFunction2() {
  var a = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument();
  var b = a.getBody().findText('abc');
  b.getElement().asText().setLinkUrl(null);
}
0
votes

I found an horrible trick to remove LinkURLs from text, it made the trick for me :)

var textRangeElement = body.findText("yourpattern");
var textElement = textRangeElement.getElement().getText();
textRangeElement.getElement().setText(textElement);