A simple Node.js library to read and manipulate data in Google Spreadsheets.
Works without authentication for read-only sheets or with auth for adding/editing/deleting data. Supports both list-based and cell-based feeds.
var GoogleSpreadsheet = require("google-spreadsheet");
// spreadsheet key is the long id in the sheets URL
var my_sheet = new GoogleSpreadsheet('<spreadsheet key>');
// Without auth -- read only
// IMPORTANT: See note below on how to make a sheet public-readable!
// # is worksheet id - IDs start at 1
my_sheet.getRows( 1, function(err, row_data){
console.log( 'pulled in '+row_data.length + ' rows');
});
// With auth -- read + write
// see below for authentication instructions
var creds = require('./google-generated-creds.json');
// OR, if you cannot save the file locally (like on heroku)
var creds = {
client_email: 'yourserviceaccountemailhere@google.com',
private_key: 'your long private key stuff here'
}
my_sheet.useServiceAccountAuth(creds, function(err){
// getInfo returns info about the sheet and an array or "worksheet" objects
my_sheet.getInfo( function( err, sheet_info ){
console.log( sheet_info.title + ' is loaded' );
// use worksheet object if you want to stop using the # in your calls
var sheet1 = sheet_info.worksheets[0];
sheet1.getRows( function( err, rows ){
rows[0].colname = 'new val';
rows[0].save(); //async and takes a callback
rows[0].del(); //async and takes a callback
});
});
// column names are set by google and are based
// on the header row (first row) of your sheet
my_sheet.addRow( 2, { colname: 'col value'} );
my_sheet.getRows( 2, {
start: 100, // start index
num: 100, // number of rows to pull
orderby: 'name' // column to order results by
}, function(err, row_data){
// do something...
});
})
IMPORTANT: Google recently deprecated their ClientLogin (username+password) access, so things are slightly more complicated now. Older versions of this module supported it, so just be aware that things changed.
By default, this module makes unauthenticated requests and can therefore only access spreadsheets that are "public".
The Google Spreadsheets Data API reference and developers guide is a little ambiguous about how you access a "published" public Spreadsheet.
If you wish to work with a Google Spreadsheet without authenticating, not only must the Spreadsheet in question be visible to the web, but it must also have been explicitly published using "File > Publish to the web" menu option in the google spreadsheets GUI.
Many seemingly "public" sheets have not also been "published" so this may cause some confusion.
This is a 2-legged oauth method and designed to be "an account that belongs to your application instead of to an individual end user". Use this for an app that needs to access a set of documents that you have full access to. (read more)
Setup Instructions
- Go to the Google Developers Console
- Select your project or create a new one (and then select it)
- Enable the Drive API for your project
- In the sidebar on the left, expand APIs & auth > APIs
- Search for "drive"
- Click on "Drive API"
- click the blue "Enable API" button
- Create a service account for your project
- In the sidebar on the left, expand APIs & auth > Credentials
- Click blue "Add credentials" button
- Select the "Service account" option
- Select the "JSON" key type option
- Click blue "Create" button
- your JSON key file is generated and downloaded to your machine (it is the only copy!)
- note your service account's email address (also available in the JSON key file)
- Share the doc (or docs) with your service account using the email noted above
The main class that represents an entire spreadsheet.
Create a new google spreadsheet object.
sheet_id
-- the ID of the spreadsheet (from its URL)auth
- (optional) an existing auth tokenoptions
- (optional)visibility
- defaults topublic
if anonymousprojection
- defaults tovalues
if anonymous
Uses a service account email and public/private key to create a token to use to authenticated requests. Normally you would just pass in the require of the json file that google generates for you when you create a service account.
See the "Authentication" section for more info.
If you are using heroku or another environment where you cannot save a local file, you may just pass in an object with
client_email
-- your service account's email addressprivate_key
-- the private key found in the JSON file
Internally, this uses a JWT client to generate a new auth token for your service account that is valid for 1 hour. The token will be automatically regenerated when it expires.
Use an already created auth token for all future requets.
Get information about the spreadsheet. Calls callback passing an object that contains:
id
- the URL/id as returned from googletitle
- the title of the documentupdated
- last updated timestampauthor
- auth info in an objectname
- author nameemail
- author email
worksheets
- an array ofSpreadsheetWorksheet
objects (see below)
Get an array of row objects from the sheet.
worksheet_id
- the index of the sheet to read from (index starts at 1)options
(optional)start-index
- start reading from row #max-results
- max # of rows to read at onceorderby
- column key to order byreverse
- reverse resultsquery
- send a structured query for rows (more info)
callback(err, rows)
- will be called with an array of row objects (see below)
Add a single row to the sheet.
worksheet_id
- the index of the sheet to add to (index starts at 1)new_row
- key-value object to add - keys must match the header row on your sheetcallback(err)
- callback called after row is added
Get an array of cell objects.
worksheet_id
- the index of the sheet to add to (index starts at 1)options
(optional)min-row
- row range min (uses #s visible on the left)max-row
- row range maxmin-col
- column range min (uses numbers, not letters!)max-col
- column range maxreturn-empty
- include empty cells (boolean)
Do a bulk update on cells.
worksheet_id
- the index of the sheet to add to (index starts at 1)cells
- an array of SpreadsheetCell objects to save
Add a new worksheet to the doc.
options
(optional)title
- title for the new sheet (default = 'New Worksheet')rowCount
- number of rows (default = 50)colCount
- number of columns (default = 10)
Remove a worksheet from the doc.
worksheet_id
- the index of the sheet to add to (index starts at 1)
Represents a single "sheet" from the spreadsheet. These are the different tabs/pages visible at the bottom of the Google Sheets interface.
This is a really just a wrapper to call the same functions on the spreadsheet without needing to include the worksheet id.
Properties:
url
- the URL for the sheetid
- the ID of the sheettitle
- the title (visible on the tabs in google's interface)rowCount
- number of rowscolCount
- number of columns
See above.
See above.
See above.
See above.
Remove this sheet from the doc.
Represents a single row from a sheet.
You can treat the row as a normal javascript object. Object keys will be from the header row of your sheet, however the google API mangles the names a bit to make them simpler. It's easiest if you just use all lowercase keys to begin with.
Saves any changes made to the row's values.
Deletes the row from the sheet.
Represents a single cell from the sheet. Using cells is the only way to read and modify the formulas in your sheet.
Properties:
id
- the ID of the cellrow
- the row this cell is incol
- the column this cell is invalue
- the value of the cellnumericValue
- the value of the cell as a numberinputValue
- the "raw" value of the cell which can be a formula
IMPORTANT:
- Cells with regular values can be modified by setting
value
and callingsave
- Cells with formulas in them can be modified by setting
inputValue
and callingsave
Set the value of the cell and saves it.
Saves the current value/formula
Clear the cell -- internally just calls .setValue('', callback)
- batch requests for cell based updates
- modifying worksheet/spreadsheet properties
- getting list of available spreadsheets for an authenticated user
- https://developers.google.com/google-apps/spreadsheets/
- https://github.com/Ajnasz/GoogleClientLogin
This is a fairly major rewrite of code by samcday. original version here Also big thanks fo GoogleClientLogin for dealing with authentication.
node-google-spreadsheets is free and unencumbered public domain software. For more information, see the accompanying UNLICENSE file.