I've been using a public google spreadsheet as a JSON endpoint for several of my web projects for some time now. I liked this approach because I could retrieve data from a public spreadsheet without needing any kind of authentication or tokens to get the data, all I needed to do was publish the spreadsheet and then fetch from a simple URL:
fetch(`https://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/${mode}/${id}/${sheetNum}/public/values?alt=json`).then((res)=>console.log(res));
Google is deprecating sheets v3, and I'm confused about how to migrate to v4. From this answer I gather that I need to provide an access token which is created via the google cloud console. But do I need to create some kind of special "app" or "workplace" or will any old API token do? I tried the following:
Create a GCP project
Enable Google Sheets API
Hit Create Credentials
fetch data using the following URL scheme:
fetch(https://sheets.googleapis.com/v4/spreadsheets/SPREADSHEET_ID/values/RANGE?key=API_KEY)
But this is giving me a 403 response.
You are using the JSON Alt Type variant of the Google Data protocol. This protocol is dated and appears to no longer work reliably. The GData API Directory tells:
Google Spreadsheets Data API: GData version is still live. Replaced by the Google Sheets API v4.
Google Sheets API v4 is a modern RESTful interface that is typically used with a client library to handle authentication and batch processing of data requests. If you do not want to do a full-blown client implementation, David Kutcher offers the following v4 analog for the GData JSON Alt Type, using jQuery:
GData (old API, not recommended):
var url = 'https://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/list/' +
spreadsheet_id + '/' + tab_ordinal + '/public/values?alt=json';
($.getJSON(url, 'callback=?')).success(function(data) {
// ...
};
V4 (new API, recommended):
var url = 'https://sheets.googleapis.com/v4/spreadsheets/' +
spreadsheet_id + '/values/' + tab_name +
'?alt=json&key=' + api_key;
($.getJSON(url, 'callback=?')).success(function(data) {
// ...
};
...where:
spreadsheet_id is the long string of letters and numbers in the address of the spreadsheet — it is the bit between /d/ and /edit
tab_ordinal is number of the sheet — the first sheet that appears in the tab bar is sheet number 1, the second one is 2, and so on
tab_name is the name of the sheet, i.e., the name you see in the tab bar at the bottom of the window when you have the spreadsheet open for editing
api_key is the API key you get from from Google Cloud Platform console
Note that the JSON output format differs between the two versions.
The old GData JSON Alt Type variant API requires that the spreadsheet is made public through File > Publish to the web. V4 requires that the file is shared with "anyone with the link can view" through File > Share.
FINDINGS
The URL scheme produces the error 403 because mostly likely the spreadsheet file isn't shared publicly like this:
I can also replicate the 403 error when my test sheet isn't shared publicly using the same URL scheme:
RECOMMENDATION:
You can double check the spreadsheet file you're accessing and check it's sharing permission, making sure it's set to Anyone with the link:
TEST RESULT
Publicly shared test sheet
After setting up the spreadsheet file's sharing permission to Anyone with the link using the same v4 URL scheme:
I am trying to capture query string parameters for analytics purpose using javascript. I did some searching and found that BMP can be used to do it but i am unable to find ample examples to implement. Could anyone point me in the right direction.
EDIT 1:
I used below code using browsermob-proxy to get har file but i get ERROR: browsermob-proxy returned error when i run it . I use selenium with it.
getHarFile() {
const proxy = browsermb.Proxy;
const pr = new proxy({host:"0.0.0.0",port:4444});
pr.doHAR("http://www.cnn.com/", (err,data) => {
if (err) {
logger.debug('ERROR: ' + err);
} else {
fs.writeFileSync('ua.com.har', data, 'utf8');
logger.debug("#HAR CREATED#");
}
})
}
So since I´m not quite sure of your scope I will throw you some ideas:
1. Fixing browsermob-proxy
You should change the host and proxy of the browsermob-proxy. Change the host to 127.0.0.1 and the port with any random number (4444 its ok). Then, make sure your browser run in that host and proxy by changing the browser settings.
2. Using plain javascript
2.1 Get current page query string
You can get the query string using location.search. If you are using some BDD framework with selenium, it is possible to execute javascript code and retrieve the result. You should always add a return to your code in order to recieve the response in your BDD test.
2.2 Using Performance API
You can access to all the network information within performance api. If you need to get the current page url you can use the following code:
performance.getEntriesByType("navigation")
This will return all the current navigation events and information.
If you want to get some information of the calls that the page made you can access it using:
performance.getEntriesByType("resource")
This will return all the calls made by your site. You have to loop over it searching the resource you want to find.
In all the ways, there is no way to get the value and key of query string as in the network tab. You have to separate it manually with a function, you can use the code provided here to get the value of a key.
My suggestion is to create your personal extension for Google Chrome, and developing an extension you can access few more apis that are not available by default in the console.
For example you will have this object in order to inspect the network tab:
chrome.devtools.network
Here two links you may find useful:
https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/devtools
https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/devtools_network
I hope it helps
I was finally able to do it using the s object available on chrome console. The url with encoded query string was available as s.rb object in chrome console. I just decoded it and extracted the query string parameters.
Good Day to you,
I have a difficulty in finding the google maps api key. I had to change the base_url in the config file and since then it gives me this error:
Google Maps API error: MissingKeyMapError https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/error-messages#missing-key-map-error_.ab # js?v=3.exp&signed_in=false&sensor=false&libraries=places&language=en-USA:32
util.js:211
Google Maps API warning: NoApiKeys https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/error-messages#no-api-keys
util.js:211
Google Maps API warning: SensorNotRequired https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/error-messages#sensor-not-required
if i add this tag with my api key into the <head> of the page: <script src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?key=YOUR_API_KEY" type="text/javascript"></script>
i get this error:
unfortunately i only have an img of the error right now.
first it was missing then it was duplicated. and why would it be missing if i change the config?i know that you have to get a new api key with the new domain and i did that but there is a conflict with the old api key which i cant find anywhere. where then would i find the original key? i tried searching in all the files couldnt find any key. does somebody have a hint for me? i tried searching all files for "googleapis.com". Maybe the there is an otherway to link to the google api of which i dont know. im really looking forward to get this fixed.
thank you for your time to read this and i hope someone can help me
regards
theweeezel
As the error stated :
The script element that loads the API is missing the required authentication parameter. If you are using the standard Maps JavaScript API, you must use a key parameter with a valid API key. If you are a Premium Plan customer, you must use either a client parameter with your client ID or a key parameter with a valid API key.
If you will check the guide to API keys and client IDs. Kindly double check the API Key created and follow the script tag below.
If you're using the API under the standard plan, you must use a browser key (a type of API key) set up in a project of your choice.
Specify a key when loading the API
To specify a key, include it as the value of a key parameter when loading the API.
For example:
NOTE:
Google Maps APIs are available for Android or iOS apps, Web browsers, and via HTTP web services. APIs in each platform require a specific type of key. The Google Maps JavaScript API will only work with a Browser key. APIs of the same platform can use the same key.
Hope this helps.
I am trying to find the location of cell towers using MNC, MCC, lac and CellID.
I have tried many api's such as opencell, combian etc. But none of them are free.
Is there any rest free API available, but for the moment I am using Google geolocation api.
I am sending request in javascript like this
https://www.googleapis.com/geolocation/v1/geolocate?key=xxx&homeMobileNetworkCode=410&homeMobileCountryCode=310&locationAreaCode=415&cellId=42&format=json
and all the time it return "Not Found"
I checked many places on stackover, but could not find good solution or hint. In addition is there any Free Api Available for getting operator name by using data mnc, mcc, cellid and lac.
In addition, I have also tried to use this link to get location but I could not as I can not find what parameter I need to pass and what should be the url I need to create.
Please provide me some guidelines to get location and operator name for specific tower by using information such as mnc, mcc etc.
Thanks appreciated
Google describes the geolocate API endpoint in their docs. You tried to do a GET request, but they say that you should use POST, with JSON-Formatted data:
Communication is done over HTTPS using POST. Both request and response are formatted as JSON, and the content type of both is application/json.
If you want to use the undocumented API from your link, the URL is http://www.google.com/glm/mmap and the POST-data is what is written in the function WriteData. See the Java Docs for DataOutputStream if you are unfamiliar with the output produced by the various write..-methods.
As for getting the operator name, there are free databases available for that (alternative 1, alternative 2; search google for more, there are plenty).
I want to access Google Spreadsheets using JavaScript only (no .NET, C#, Java, etc.)
I came here and was shocked to know that there is NO API for JavaScript to access Google Sheets.
Please tell me how to access (CREATE/EDIT/DELETE) Google Sheets using JavaScript or any of its frameworks like jQuery.
I have created a simple javascript library that retrieves google spreadsheet data (if they are published) via the JSON api:
https://github.com/mikeymckay/google-spreadsheet-javascript
You can see it in action here:
http://mikeymckay.github.com/google-spreadsheet-javascript/sample.html
Jan 2018 UPDATE: When I answered this question last year, I neglected to mention a third way to access Google APIs with JavaScript, and that would be from Node.js apps using its client library, so I added it below.
It's Mar 2017, and most of the answers here are outdated -- the accepted answer now refers to a library that uses an older API version. A more current answer: you can access most Google APIs with JavaScript only. Google provides 2 (correction, 3) ways to do this today:
As mentioned in the answer by Dan Dascalescu, you can use Google Apps Script, the JavaScript-in-Google's-cloud solution. That is, non-Node server-side JS apps outside the browser that run on Google servers.
You code your apps in the Apps Script code editor, and they can access Google Sheets in two different ways:
The Spreadsheet Service (native object support; usage guide); native is easier but is generally older than...
The Google Sheets Advanced Service (directly access the latest Google Sheets REST API [see below]; usage guide)
Apps Script also powers add-ons, and you can extend Sheets UI functionality with Sheets add-ons (like these)
You can even write mobile add-ons which extend the Sheets app on Android
To learn more about using Apps Script, check out these videos I've created (most involve the use of Sheets)
You can also use the Google APIs Client Library for JavaScript to access the latest Google Sheets REST API on the client side.
Here are some generic samples of using the client library
The latest Sheets API (v4) was released at Google I/O 2016; it's much more powerful than all previous versions, giving developers programmatic access to most features found in the Sheets UI
Here is the JavaScript quickstart for the API to help you get started
Here are sample "recipes" (JSON payloads) for core API requests
If you're not "allergic" to Python (if you are, just pretend it's pseudocode ;) ), I made several videos with more "real-world" samples of using the API you can learn from and migrate to JS if desired (NOTE: even though it's Python code, most API requests have JSON & easily portable to JS):
Migrating SQL data to a Sheet (code deep dive post)
Formatting text using the Sheets API (code deep dive post)
Generating slides from spreadsheet data (code deep dive post)
Those and others in the Sheets API video library
The 3rd way to access Google APIs with JavaScript is from the Node.js client library on the server-side. It works similarly to using the JavaScript (client) client library described just above, only you'll be accessing the same API from the server-side. Here's the Node.js Quickstart example for Sheets. You may find the Python-based videos above to be even more useful as they too access the API from the server-side.
When using the REST API, you need to manage & store your source code as well as perform authorization by rolling your own auth code (see samples above). Apps Script handles this on your behalf, managing the data (reducing the "pain" as mentioned by Ape-inago in their answer), and your code is stored on Google's servers. But your functionality is restricted to what services App Script provides whereas the REST API gives developers much broader access to the API. But hey, it's good to have choices, right? In summary, to answer the OP original question, instead of zero, developers have three ways of accessing Google Sheets using JavaScript.
Here's the Gist.
You can create a spreadsheet using the Google Sheets API. There is currently no way to delete a spreadsheet using the API (read the documentation). Think of Google Docs API as the route to create and look-up documents.
You can add/remove worksheets within the spreadsheet using the worksheet based feeds.
Updating a spreadsheet is done through either list based feeds or cell based feeds.
Reading the spreadsheet can be done through either the Google Spreadsheets APIs mentioned above or, for published sheets only, by using the Google Visualization API Query Language to query the data (which can return results in CSV, JSON, or HTML table format).
Forget jQuery. jQuery is only really valuable if you're traversing the DOM. Since GAS (Google Apps Scripting) doesn't use the DOM jQuery will add no value to your code. Stick to vanilla.
I'm really surprised that nobody has provided this information in an answer yet. Not only can it be done, but it's relatively easy to do using vanilla JS. The only exception being the Google Visualization API which is relatively new (as of 2011). The Visualization API also works exclusively through a HTTP query string URI.
There's a solution that does not require one to publish the spreadsheet. However, the sheet does need to be 'Shared'. More specifically, one needs to share the sheet in a manner where anyone with the link can access the spreadsheet. Once this is done, one can use the Google Sheets HTTP API.
First up, you need an Google API key. Head here:
https://developers.google.com/places/web-service/get-api-key
NB. Please be aware of the security ramifications of having an API key made available to the public: https://support.google.com/googleapi/answer/6310037
Get all data for a spreadsheet - warning, this can be a lot of data.
https://sheets.googleapis.com/v4/spreadsheets/{spreadsheetId}/?key={yourAPIKey}&includeGridData=true
Get sheet metadata
https://sheets.googleapis.com/v4/spreadsheets/{spreadsheetId}/?key={yourAPIKey}
Get a range of cells
https://sheets.googleapis.com/v4/spreadsheets/{spreadsheetId}/values/{sheetName}!{cellRange}?key={yourAPIKey}
Now armed with this information, one can use AJAX to retrieve data and then manipulate it in JavaScript. I would recommend using axios.
var url = "https://sheets.googleapis.com/v4/spreadsheets/{spreadsheetId}/?key={yourAPIKey}&includeGridData=true";
axios.get(url)
.then(function (response) {
console.log(response);
})
.catch(function (error) {
console.log(error);
});
2016 update: The easiest way is to use the Google Apps Script API, in particular the SpreadSheet Service. This works for private sheets, unlike the other answers that require the spreadsheet to be published.
This will let you bind JavaScript code to a Google Sheet, and execute it when the sheet is opened, or when a menu item (that you can define) is selected.
Here's a Quickstart/Demo. The code looks like this:
// Let's say you have a sheet of First, Last, email and you want to return the email of the
// row the user has placed the cursor on.
function getActiveEmail() {
var activeSheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
var activeRow = activeSheet.getActiveCell().getRow();
var email = activeSheet.getRange(activeRow, 3).getValue();
return email;
}
You can also publish such scripts as web apps.
edit: This was answered before the google doc's api was released. See Evan Plaice's answer and Dan Dascalescu's answer for more up-to-date
information.
It looks lke you can, but it's a pain to use. It involves using the Google data API.
http://gdatatips.blogspot.com/2008/12/using-javascript-client-library-w-non.html
"The JavaScript client library has helper methods for Calendar, Contacts, Blogger, and Google Finance. However, you can use it with just about any Google Data API to access authenticated/private feeds. This example uses the DocList API."
and an example of writing a gadget that interfaces with spreadsheets: http://code.google.com/apis/spreadsheets/gadgets/
'JavaScript accessing Google Docs' would be tedious to implement and moreover Google documentation is also not that simple to get it. I have some good links to share by which you can achieve js access to gdoc:
http://code.google.com/apis/documents/docs/3.0/developers_guide_protocol.html#UploadingDocs
http://code.google.com/apis/spreadsheets/gadgets/
http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/docs/js.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/google-help-dataapi#googlegroups.com/msg01924.html
May be these would help you out..
Sorry, this is a lousy answer. Apparently this has been an issue for almost two years so don't hold your breath.
Here is the official request that you can "star"
Probably the closest you can come is rolling your own service with Google App Engine/Python and exposing whatever subset you need with your own JS library. Though I'd love to have a better solution myself.
In this fast changing world most of these link are obsolet.
Now you can use Google Drive Web APIs:
Java
PHP
Javacript
.NET
Python
Ruby
and others...
you can do it by using Sheetsee.js and tabletop.js
example from git
another Example
You can read Google Sheets spreadsheets data in JavaScript by using the RGraph sheets connector:
https://www.rgraph.net/canvas/docs/import-data-from-google-sheets.html
Initially (a few years ago) this relied on some RGraph functions to work its magic - but now it can work standalone (ie not requiring the RGraph common library).
Some example code (this example makes an RGraph chart):
<!-- Include the sheets library -->
<script src="RGraph.common.sheets.js"></script>
<!-- Include these two RGraph libraries to make the chart -->
<script src="RGraph.common.key.js"></script>
<script src="RGraph.bar.js"></script>
<script>
// Create a new RGraph Sheets object using the spreadsheet's key and
// the callback function that creates the chart. The RGraph.Sheets object is
// passed to the callback function as an argument so it doesn't need to be
// assigned to a variable when it's created
new RGraph.Sheets('1ncvARBgXaDjzuca9i7Jyep6JTv9kms-bbIzyAxbaT0E', function (sheet)
{
// Get the labels from the spreadsheet by retrieving part of the first row
var labels = sheet.get('A2:A7');
// Use the column headers (ie the names) as the key
var key = sheet.get('B1:E1');
// Get the data from the sheet as the data for the chart
var data = [
sheet.get('B2:E2'), // January
sheet.get('B3:E3'), // February
sheet.get('B4:E4'), // March
sheet.get('B5:E5'), // April
sheet.get('B6:E6'), // May
sheet.get('B7:E7') // June
];
// Create and configure the chart; using the information retrieved above
// from the spreadsheet
var bar = new RGraph.Bar({
id: 'cvs',
data: data,
options: {
backgroundGridVlines: false,
backgroundGridBorder: false,
xaxisLabels: labels,
xaxisLabelsOffsety: 5,
colors: ['#A8E6CF','#DCEDC1','#FFD3B6','#FFAAA5'],
shadow: false,
colorsStroke: 'rgba(0,0,0,0)',
yaxis: false,
marginLeft: 40,
marginBottom: 35,
marginRight: 40,
key: key,
keyBoxed: false,
keyPosition: 'margin',
keyTextSize: 12,
textSize: 12,
textAccessible: false,
axesColor: '#aaa'
}
}).wave();
});
</script>
For this type of thing you should use Google Fusion Tables. The API is designed for that purpose.