Organize google drive with script

Question

I have a google drive folder that receives attachments from emails via script and I want to then organize those attachments, which are from many different people, into appropriate sub folders. I'm new to the google apps api and was hoping for some direction.

Answer 1

Presumably, somewhere in the script there is logic like this:

var attachments = message.getAttachments();
for (var i = 0; i < attachments.length; i++) {
   DriveApp.createFile(attachments[i]);
}

This saves attachments to the root folder of Google Drive. And you want is to replace it with

var attachments = message.getAttachments();
var folder =  ...      // somehow determine the folder to save to 
for (var i = 0; i < attachments.length; i++) {
   folder.createFile(attachments[i]);
}

so that the attachment is saved to some specific folder. How to determine the folder to save to is up to you.

References:

• Drive Service
• Gmail Service