Google Sheets

Insight² can connect to Google Sheet using OAuth 2.0, which helps us to limit an application's access to a user's account.

How to integrate Google Sheets

Authorization Scopes

You can create a Google Sheets data source with one of either of the two permission scopes:
1. Read Only
2. Read and Write

Operations

Using Google sheets data source you can perfom several operations from your applications like:

1. Read data from a sheet
2. Append data to a sheet
3. Update single row of a sheet
4. Delete row from a sheet
5. Get spreadsheet info

Read data from a sheet

This operation returns the table data from the spreadsheet in the form of json object.

Fields	description
Spreadsheet ID	It is mandatory to enter the spreadsheet-id. The spreadsheet-id can be found in the URL of the spreadsheet. Example URL: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1W2S4re7zNaPk9vqv6_CqOpPdm_mDEqmLmzjVe7Nb9WM/edit#gid=0 - in this URL, the 1W2S4re7zNaPk9vqv6_CqOpPdm_mDEqmLmzjVe7Nb9WM is the spreadsheet-id.
Range	This is optional. You can specify the range of cells in this field. If left empty, it will select the range A1:Z500.
Sheet	This is optional. You can specify sheet name if it has more than 1 sheets, else it will automatically choose the first sheet.

Append data to a sheet

You can add more rows to the table using the append operation.

Fields	description
Spreadsheet ID	It is mandatory to enter the spreadsheet-id. The spreadsheet-id can be found in the URL of the spreadsheet. Example URL: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1W2S4re7zNaPk9vqv6_CqOpPdm_mDEqmLmzjVe7Nb9WM/edit#gid=0 - in this URL, the 1W2S4re7zNaPk9vqv6_CqOpPdm_mDEqmLmzjVe7Nb9WM is the spreadsheet-id.
Sheet	This is optional. You can specify sheet name if it has more than 1 sheets, else it will automatically choose the first sheet.
Rows	Enter the row data in the json array form. Each object in an array will represent a single row. Example: [ {"name":"John", "email":"John@tooljet.com"},{...},{...} ] In each object, the key represents the column name and the value represents the cell data.

Update single row of a sheet

You can update the existing data in sheet using this operation.

Fields	description
Spreadsheet ID	It is mandatory to enter the spreadsheet-id. The spreadsheet-id can be found in the URL of the spreadsheet. Example URL: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1W2S4re7zNaPk9vqv6_CqOpPdm_mDEqmLmzjVe7Nb9WM/edit#gid=0 - in this URL, the 1W2S4re7zNaPk9vqv6_CqOpPdm_mDEqmLmzjVe7Nb9WM is the spreadsheet-id.
Where	Enter the column name such as id for choosing a row.
Operator	Choose the === operator to check the equality.
Value	Enter the any id number/name that you want to update.
Rows	Enter the row data. Example: {{({id: components.textinput4.value, company: components.textinput1.value, position: components.textinput2.value, url: components.textinput3.value, 'date-applied': components.datepicker1.value, status: components.dropdown1.value})}}

Delete row from a sheet

Use this operation delete a specific row from the sheet.

Fields	description
Spreadsheet ID	It is mandatory to enter the spreadsheet-id. The spreadsheet-id can be found in the URL of the spreadsheet. Example URL: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1W2S4re7zNaPk9vqv6_CqOpPdm_mDEqmLmzjVe7Nb9WM/edit#gid=0 - in this URL, the 1W2S4re7zNaPk9vqv6_CqOpPdm_mDEqmLmzjVe7Nb9WM is the spreadsheet-id.
GID	You'll find the GID in the end of the URL of spreadsheet. In the example mentioned above, the GID is 0
Delete row number	Just enter the row number that you want to delete.

Get spreadsheet info

This operation can be used to get some basic information of the spreadsheet such as the number of sheets, theme, time-zone, format, and url etc.

Here is the Preview of the query that used the get spreadsheet info operation.