Simple Sheets Reader

This package is deprecated in favor of simple-sheets, which combines this with the simple-sheets-writer API

Reads Google Sheets row data, perfect for sheets populated by Google Forms. This is a wrapper for the very powerful-yet-overwhelming official Sheets API.

Authenticates via a Google Service Account by passing in the client_email and private_key values provided by the .json file that Google Service Accounts generate. See service-account-credentials.json for an example.

API

simple-sheets-reader exports an object with a single function, getRows, which takes the following arguments:

getRows(rows, options).then();

It returns a promise that resolves to an object that has arrays with the requested mappings.

rows is an array of objects that have the following properties:

[{
    label: "people", // This will be the label of the array
    range: "A2:B", // In A1 format
    mapping: ["firstName", "lastName"] // These are what the columns will be labeled
},{
    label: "locations",
    range: "'Cities'!C2:C",
    mapping: ["city"]
}]

options include:

• spreadsheetId (required): The ID of the Google sheet, which is the long string in the URL of the page
• clientEmail (required): The authorized client_email for your service account (remember to add permissions for this email to your sheet!)
• privateKey (required): the authorized private_key for your service account
• dateTimeFormat: An optional override of the date format that will return

Usage

const {getRows} = require("simple-sheets-reader");
const PRIVATE_KEY = "-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----\nMIIEAoIBAQCwmz3cj...ee+Z81xUH4QTo18s=\n-----END PRIVATE KEY-----\n";
 
getRows([
    label: "people",
    range: "A2:B",
    mapping: ["firstName", "lastName"]
},{
    label: "locations",
    range: "'Cities'!C2:C",
    mapping: ["city"]
], {
    spreadsheetId: "9wLECuzvVpx8z7Ux5_9if_wdTDwhxXRcJZpJ-xhVeJRs",
    clientEmail: "[e-mail]",
    privateKey: PRIVATE_KEY,
    dateTimeFormat: "FORMATTED_STRING" // Default value, can be overridden to "SERIAL_NUMBER"
}).then(response => {
    // Do something with the response
}).catch(console.error);

Output

{
    people: [{
        firstName: "Kyle",
        lastName: "Coberly"
    },{
        firstName: "Elyse",
        lastName: "Coberly"
    }],
    cities: [{
        city: "Denver"
    },{
        city: "Seattle"
    }]
}

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Look at the Google Sheets batchGet API Docs for more information.

Testing

npm test

Upgrading to 2.0

• Credentials need to be passed in, rather than read from the environment