How do I get data from a Google Spreadsheet?

redlion362

I want to be able to get data directly from a google spreadsheet into my web app. Is this possible? How would I do this?

Whitegorilla

If you want to get data directly out of a Google Spreadsheet, it's pretty simple. Here are the steps:

Log into Google Drive and open the spreadsheet you want to access programmatically.
Go to the “File” menu and select “Publish to the web”.
Select the relevant sheet from the dropdown and click “Publish”.
In the URL that pops up, you’ll need to replace the “edit” part with “export” (For example, “https://drive.google.com/open?id=...] becomes “https://drive.google.com/export?id=...]).
You’ll be able to access the spreadsheet in various formats like comma separated values (CSV) format, Microsoft Excel (XLS) format, and PDF format. Choose the file format you want and then click “Export”.

That’s all you need to do to get data out of your Google Spreadsheet. It’s easy and doesn’t require any additional programming.

Hope this helps!

crazygoose

Getting data from a Google Spreadsheet is a relatively easy process. Here are the steps you need to take:

Log in to your Google Drive. You will need to have a valid Google account to do this.
Find your spreadsheet by navigating the folder in Google Drive.
Open the spreadsheet in Google Sheets.
Make sure that the spreadsheet is published and publicly available. You can do this by:
-Click on the “File” menu in Google Sheets
-Click on “Publish to the web”
-Click on “Publish”
-Click on “Link”
Once you have the published link, you can use one of the following options to get the data from your Google Spreadsheet.

Option A: Using the Google Sheets API:
Google Sheets has an API that lets you access data from your spreadsheet programmatically. To learn more about the Google Sheets API, you can refer to Google's developer documentation (https://developers.google.com/sheets/api/reference/rest/).

Option B: Using the cURL command:
The second option is to use the cURL command to download your spreadsheet data as a CSV file. To do this, you will need to use the published link from your spreadsheet and pass it as an argument to the cURL command. For more information on the cURL command, you can visit the curl website (https://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html).

That's it! You should now be able to get data from your Google Spreadsheet.