I've seen numerous articles on this but they seem outdated, for instance none of the Google Docs Spreadsheet urls has key parameter. I read this as well:
JSON data from google spreadsheet
Then I read this to access data
https://developers.google.com/gdata/samples/spreadsheet_sample
My spreadsheet exists at:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SKI5773_68HiSve1fsz7fr4gotjFWHB7KBuVsOlLz6I/edit#gid=0
I've tried using this code, I think I have a problem with the key or syntax, please guide to fix.
<script src="http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/feed/1SKI5773_68HiSve1fsz7fr4gotjFWHB7KBuVsOlLz6I/worksheet/public/basic?alt=json-in-script&callback=importGSS"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
function importGSS(json) {
console.log('finished');
}
</script>
The src attribute in your script tag is an invalid link (and you can see this for yourself by viewing your link directly in a browser).
The feed/key/worksheet section of the URL has the right key but the wrong feed and worksheet.
In the URL, replace "feed" with either "cells" (separate value for each cell) or "list" (separate value for each row).
At the same time, replace "worksheet" with "od6" (indicating the leftmost, or default, sheet - see this blog post for accessing other sheets).
If you view this new URL directly in a browser, you can see that it returns a meaningful value.
Your final script tag might look like this:
<script src="https://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/list/1SKI5773_68HiSve1fsz7fr4gotjFWHB7KBuVsOlLz6I/od6/public/values?alt=json-in-script&callback=importGSS"></script>
For more info, you can see an example on the Google Developers site
APISpark PaaS has a feature to create and deploy a custom JSON API based on a GSpreadsheet. That might help and give you more control on the web API (CORS support, authentication, custom domain and so on).
See the tutorial here: https://apispark.com/docs/tutorials/google-spreadsheet
You may consider use an alternative to this request of your sheet data, because this method is deprecated.
Anyway, you can still using another feed format, you can see this alternatives in:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/worksheets/your-spreadsheet-id/private/full
In that result you can see any export formats are availables. Can help you an CSV or alt JSON visualization format?
Another potential solution here is to use this https://gist.github.com/ronaldsmartin/47f5239ab1834c47088e to wrap around your existing spreadsheet.
Add the id and sheet html param to the URL below.
https://script.google.com/macros/s/AKfycbzGvKKUIaqsMuCj7-A2YRhR-f7GZjl4kSxSN1YyLkS01_CfiyE/exec
Eg: your id is your sheet id which is
1SKI5773_68HiSve1fsz7fr4gotjFWHB7KBuVsOlLz6I
and your sheet which is
Sheet1
In your case you can actually see your data (it's actually working) here as json at
https://script.google.com/macros/s/AKfycbzGvKKUIaqsMuCj7-A2YRhR-f7GZjl4kSxSN1YyLkS01_CfiyE/exec?id=1SKI5773_68HiSve1fsz7fr4gotjFWHB7KBuVsOlLz6I&sheet=Sheet1
To be safe, you should deploy the code sheetAsJson.gs in the github gist above as your own in your Google Drive.
You have plenty of possible answers above. For those that come anew, if you're looking for a more controlled JSON generator, check out this gist:
JSONPuller
It takes in a Spreadsheet and returns an array of objects, with the lined that you decide as the headers (defaults to whichever line is frozen)
Cheers,
The easiest way for me was to export spreadsheet to CSV
File -> Download -> Comma-separated values
Then just convert CSV to JSON with free online servic
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I'm writing a script in Google Sheets to retrieve a value from an API. The API provides text/event-stream responses ~every 10 seconds. Is there a way I can retrieve a single response without using async functions or event listeners? I'm not very competent in JavaScript, but because I'm working in Google Sheets, it seems like async functions and event listeners won't work properly. From what I've learned so far, the only way to work with text/event-stream responses is to use EventSource but I can't make it work with Google Sheets.
My goal is just to retrieve one response from the endpoint though, so any way I can accomplish that in Google Sheets would be great. Here is the endpoint in case that helps:
https://pool.rplant.xyz/api2/poolminer2x/raptoreum/RThRfoQJg8qsoStLk7QdThQGmpbFUCtvnk/UlRoUmZvUUpnOHFzb1N0TGs3UWRUaFFHbXBiRlVDdHZua3x4
Because I was unable to use EventStream in Google Sheets, I tried using a polyfil found here: https://github.com/amvtek/EventSource/blob/master/dist/eventsource.js
and then running it with:
function getRplantTotal() {
var source = new EventSource('https://pool.rplant.xyz/api2/poolminer2x/raptoreum/RThRfoQJg8qsoStLk7QdThQGmpbFUCtvnk/UlRoUmZvUUpnOHFzb1N0TGs3UWRUaFFHbXBiRlVDdHZua3x4');
source.addEventListener("message", function(e) {
console.log(e.data);
});
}
but this just outputs:
3:11:49 PM Notice Execution started
3:11:49 PM Notice Execution completed
I believe your goal is as follows.
You want to retrieve the 1st values from the URL of https://pool.rplant.xyz/api2/poolminer2x/raptoreum/RThRfoQJg8qsoStLk7QdThQGmpbFUCtvnk/UlRoUmZvUUpnOHFzb1N0TGs3UWRUaFFHbXBiRlVDdHZua3x4 using Google Apps Script and want to use the retrieved values at Google Spreadsheet.
Issue and workaround:
When I saw https://github.com/amvtek/EventSource/blob/master/dist/eventsource.js, it seems that the request is run with XMLHttpRequest. At Google Apps Script, UrlFetchApp is used, and XMLHttpRequest cannot be used. I thought that this might be the reason for your current issue. But unfortunately, in the current stage, this cannot use text/event-stream type at Google Apps Script. When your URL is requested with UrlFetchApp, it looks like the infinite loop. This is the current situation.
So, from My goal is just to retrieve one response from the endpoint though, so any way I can accomplish that in Google Sheets would be great. and the above situation, I would like to propose a workaround. When you are running your script on Google Spreadsheet, how about retrieving the value from the URL using Javascript? Google Apps Script can retrieve the values from Javascript side using a dialog and a sidebar. From your question, when Javascript is used, the value can be retrieved. I thought that this might be able to be used. When this workaround is reflected in the Google Apps Script, it is as follows.
Sample script:
Google Apps Script side: Code.gs
Please copy and paste the following script to the script file of the script editor of Google Spreadsheet.
// Please run this function.
function main() {
SpreadsheetApp.getUi().showModalDialog(HtmlService.createHtmlOutputFromFile("index"), "sample");
}
function getValues(e) {
const obj = JSON.parse(e); // This is the 1st value from the URL of "https://pool.rplant.xyz/api2/poolminer2x/raptoreum/RThRfoQJg8qsoStLk7QdThQGmpbFUCtvnk/UlRoUmZvUUpnOHFzb1N0TGs3UWRUaFFHbXBiRlVDdHZua3x4"
console.log(obj)
// DriveApp.createFile("sample.txt", e); // When you use this, the retrieved value can be created as a text file.
}
Javascript side: index.html
Please copy and paste the following script to the HTML file of the script editor of Google Spreadsheet. Please set the filename as index.html.
Values are retrieving now. Please wait. After the values were retrieved, this dialog is automatically closed.
<script>
var source = new EventSource('https://pool.rplant.xyz/api2/poolminer2x/raptoreum/RThRfoQJg8qsoStLk7QdThQGmpbFUCtvnk/UlRoUmZvUUpnOHFzb1N0TGs3UWRUaFFHbXBiRlVDdHZua3x4');
source.addEventListener("message", function(e) {
source.close();
google.script.run.withSuccessHandler(google.script.host.close).getValues(e.data);
});
</script>
In this script, please run main() function from the script editor. By this, a dialog is opened on the Spreadsheet and the values are retrieved from the URL using Javascript, and when the 1st values are retrieved, the values are sent to Google Apps Script side. So you can use the retrieved values at the function of getValues.
Note:
In this workaround, it is required to execute the script by the browser. Because Javascript is used. So, please be careful about this.
As another workaround, when you can use only Javascript, Sheets API can be used with Javascript. Ref In this case, the values can be also retrieved and put to the Spreadsheet using Javascript.
References:
Dialogs and Sidebars in Google Workspace Documents
Class google.script.run (Client-side API)
I am learning to code my own website using Bootstrap and have easily placed a map on my page using a Google map API-key and script from Google Developers:
<script async defer
src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?key=YOUR_API_KEY&callback=initMap">
</script>
Ideally I would have something like:(i.e. I have tried this):
Html: <script src="map-value-pair.php"></script></script><script async defer src="$MapURL"></script>
PHP: <?php $MapURL="maps.googleapis.com/..." ?>
So obviously this doesn't hide the URL it prints to the html.
I am not convinced anyone actually tries to hide this key for a basic purpose like mine because the http referrer restriction on Google Developers is sufficient. But, after trying many different approaches to obfuscate the key I have decided I would like to learn to create environment variable to hide values. I think it could be useful and I would like to extend my server-side knowledge. Google best practices also suggests to "store them in environment variables or in files outside of your application's source tree".
I have found a related stack: What steps should I take to protect my Google Maps API Key?
In that stack a related link was given to hackernoon.com (limited links in first post) My hosting service uses cPanel and provides this apache environment variables tutorial: documentation.cpanel.net...
I am having problems finding material to start myself off. Right now I have two potential action plans:
enable ssh on cpanel>follow cPanel tutorial noted above>figure out how to access variable in html
or
enable ssh on cpanel>install node.js somehow>follow something like this on twilio>figure out how to access variable in html
Any help or suggestions appreciated. Best case scenario some edits to my action plan with a couple links to check out. I just need some sort of confidence to move forward with one of these plans.
P.S. Woo first post!
EDIT: Minor cleanup of question. Added ideally script.
Anything you output as HTML can be scraped by anyone visiting your website. You can't access variables etc in HTML as it is the final output, generated server side once it has processed all your variables.
As you are using the Javascript library then there is no way to hide your key. Javascript is executed on the client's browser, so you have to pass them your API key for it to work.
If all you need are static maps then you can generate them server side and return them in your HTML without ever revealing your key to the end user.
Heres a PHP example:
$mapimg = "https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/staticmap?center=<$USER-LOCATION>&size=640x320&key=<$YOUR-KEY>"; // Include the user location in your request URL
$imagedata = file_get_contents($mapimg); // Retrieve the image server side
$src = base64_encode($imagedata); // Encode the image server side
$imagemap = '<img src="data:image/jpg;base64,'.$src.'">'; // Create a variable to insert the image into your page
Then within your PHP script to output the HTML you just include $imagemap wherever you want the map to appear.
This stack has a similar question, see geocodezip's answer: How do I securely use Google API Keys
(I looked but could not find this answer before posting the original question).
Basically what I gather is you must have the API_Key showing for Googles javascript to work, despite Googles somewhat contradictory advice here: https://support.google.com/googleapi/answer/6310037
If you know of some reading material for me or others about creating environment variables or their usefulness please do so, I am still interested in that!
I would like to build an "Agreement Generator" for my business that is based on Google Docs Templates. I have a Node.js app that calls the Google Drive REST API v3. Here's how I'd like to do it:
Get a Google Document's raw content
Replace every ${variable_name} with value in that raw content (value is provided from an HTML form)
Update the Google Document raw content
I have been wrapping my head over this for days and I just can't find out how to get a Google Document's raw content.
It seems that all I can get is metadata. Other than that, I was thinking of maybe using the drive.files.export() method to get a Word document (to keep formatting and layout) then read it with Node and replace the values. But then I would have to re-upload that Word file and manually re-convert it to a Google Document from the Drive UI.
So I'm stuck there! Has anybody ever done something like that? Please help :)
I feel like this may be a trivial problem for most people but I'm new at doing all this, so any help would be much appreciated!
So I need to get the coordinates of all the DC metro stops from the website. I did some searching and what I figured out is that the site with all the stations provides you with the option to click on the name of the station, which then shows a map of where the station is located. When you click on the map, you are directed to a google maps page where the coordinates are shown in the search box. I also noticed that the URL contains the coordinates as well.
From the research I did, it looks like it's possible to parse through the source code of the original DC metro website that holds all of the stations, go through each link to the stations, and then parse through the source code of each station's individual website to grab the coordinates and the name of the station. Once that is retrieved, it can be stored into an XML file. I wanted to make the XML look something like:
<stations>
<station>
<name>Ballston-MU</name>
<lat>38.882071</lat>
<long>-77.111845</long>
</station>
<station>
<name>Addison Road</name>
<lat>38.886713</lat>
<long>-76.893592</long>
...
</stations>
I don't really have an preference to what language to use. I'm not even sure which one would be easier. I've used javascript and jquery to do the rest of the project. But since I only need the XML file, I don't think it'll matter what langauge I use to create it.
Sorry I know this is super long!!!
Just in case anyone was wondering, I did what user thg435 said and used the DC metro's own API. Just registered, got an API key, and used the URL they gave to get the XML file with all the info needed! :)
This was the URL (gotta insert your own custom API key to make it work):
http://api.wmata.com/StationPrediction.svc/GetPrediction/A10?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY
I'm using json-in-script to put content from a Google Spreadsheet on a web page. The spreadsheet has hyperlinks on some of the text in the cells. JSON doesn't seem to be getting anything other than the plain text of the spreadsheet, and no markup like hyperlinks. How do you get hyperlinks? Can you with JSON?
This is the src of what I'm importing:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/cells/0Aipg92XowKCndHhtbnZXQkllWEUzUjBEc3NkQXppdnc/1/public/values?alt=json-in-script&callback=cellEntries&min-row=2&min-col=1&max-col=7
This is the link to the spreadsheet (see how the items in col1 are linked?)
https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?hl=en_US&hl=en_US&key=0Aipg92XowKCndHhtbnZXQkllWEUzUjBEc3NkQXppdnc&output=html
Can anyone advise me how to get the hyperlinks?
Thanks!
You'll want to do some post-processing, checking if a value matches a URL. If it does, create your own tag for it.
Use one of these:
http://www.google.com/search?q=url+regex
Also, you know that you can embed Google Spreadsheets directly in a webpage? I'm guessing you're not doing this because it would use an iFrame, and what you want is the actual data?
Rather than using the Google Speadsheets API (which is quite cumbersome), you should use jsondata.com. It'll let you upload all the data from a .csv and embed it in your site with YouTube-style embed code.
The post processing is a piece of cake when you get your entire dataset to your application in a nicely formatted JSON object.