sheet-down

A Google Spreadsheet implementation of leveldown.

This library uses abstract-leveldown to turn a worksheet within a Google Spreadsheet into a leveldown-compatible store for use with levelup. It was built to provide a convenient and familiar UI for two use cases:

1. As a write-only store, to enable simple data entry without having to create or maintain a custom CRUD app with its own authentication/authorization.
2. As a read-only view of an upstream data store, with built in sort and filter functionality.

Keep in mind that there are some differences between LevelDB and Google Spreadsheets. For example, unlike LevelDB, Google Spreadsheets does not guarantee batch write atomicity, and does not snapshot reads.

Currently only io.js has been tested.

Example

import fs from "fs"
import levelup from "levelup"
import {Token} from "google-oauth-jwt-stream"
import {CellDOWN} from "sheet-down"
 
let email = "[e-mail]"
let key = fs.readFileSync("./key.pem")
let scopes = ["https://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds"]
let token = new Token(email, key, scopes)
 
let location = "<spreadsheet-id>/<worksheet-id>"
let table = levelup(location, new CellDOWN({token}))
 
table.batch()
  // put header row
  .put([1, 1], "name")
  .put([1, 2], "github handle")
 
  // put data rows
  .put([2, 1], "Jed Schmidt")
  .put([2, 2], "@jed")
  .put([3, 1], "Brian J. Brennan")
  .put([3, 2], "@brianloveswords")
 
  .write(err => {
    // read cells
    table.createReadStream().on("data", console.log)
 
    // { key: [ 1, 1 ], value: 'name' }
    // { key: [ 1, 2 ], value: 'github handle' }
    // { key: [ 2, 1 ], value: 'Jed Schmidt' }
    // { key: [ 2, 2 ], value: '@jed' }
    // { key: [ 3, 1 ], value: 'Brian J. Brennan' }
    // { key: [ 3, 2 ], value: '@brianloveswords' }
  })

Installation

npm install sheet-down

Setup

Follow these steps to create and share a spreadsheet that this library can access, and get its spreadsheet and worksheet IDs.

API

import {CellDOWN, RowDOWN} from "sheet-down"

This backend provides two interfaces, for each cells and rows. Each of these constructors take an object whose token property is an instance of google-oauth-jwt-stream, and return an object whose db, keyEncoding, and valueEncoding properties match those accepted by levelup.

let cells = levelup("spreadsheetId/worksheetId", CellDOWN({token}))

This creates a backend that operates on a Google worksheet by cell. Each key is an 8-byte buffer of two UInt32BEs that specify the row number and column number, and each value is a utf-8 string. Unless otherwise specified, cell keys are transparently converted from integer arrays by the provided keyEncoding.

let rows = levelup("spreadsheetId/worksheetId", RowDOWN({token}))

This creates a backend that operates on a Google worksheet by row. Each key is a 4-byte UInt32BE that specifies the row number, and each value is a JSON-encoded string. Unless otherwise specified, cell keys are transparently converted from integers by the provided keyEncoding.

This backend is built on top of the cell interface by using the first row of the worksheet as a schema, grouping all cells in a given row into an array, and then using the schema keys to replace the column numbers with property names.