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February 10, 2010

Google Apps Scriptjust launchedHenry Lau, on the Google Apps Script team, has written a great tutorial on Creating a Soccer Club Homepage. In short, his script pulls upcoming Soccer matches from Google Calendar, creates a Google Site about the team and adds the Soccer team from Contacts as collaborators. Here's some snippets of the code.// create a site, given the domain, site URL, site title and summary

var site = SitesApp.createSite("example.com", "rover", "Team Rover", "We'll be the divisional champs this year!");

// create a page for each member of the team
var webpage = site.createWebPage("Jimmy's Page", "JimmysPage", "Welcome to Jimmy's site");

// create a page for team announcements
var annPage = site.createAnnouncementsPage("Team Announcements", "Announcements", "New announcements for the team will be posted here.");

// given one of the Google Calendar events, create an announcement

var message = "There will be a soccer match from " + event.getStartTime() + " until " + event.getEndTime() + "!";
site.createAnnouncement("Soccer Match #1", message, annPage);

It's that easy! Check out the documentation and get started building your scripts.Of course, if you decide that you'd rather create Google Sites via a REST interface, the recently-announced enhancements to the Sites Data API will allow you to write code in your language of choice to create and manage sites.Developer Relations - Google Apps