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Apps Script works - until it doesn't. Here's an honest breakdown of the alternatives developers actually reach for, based on what comes up repeatedly in dev communities.
Call SheetsAPI from inside Google Apps Script using UrlFetchApp, cache responses with CacheService, and trigger syncs on a time-based schedule.
Google Sheets has no native webhook support. Here are the practical patterns - polling with SheetsAPI, Apps Script triggers, and Google Cloud Pub/Sub - and when to use each.
Both let you automate and extend Google Sheets - but they solve different problems. Here's how to choose.