Create import-google-sheets-data.md

[crockwave]

You can use a Google Sheet as a data source to populate an Eleventy rendered page. My use case is a community edited Google Sheet, that can then be simply pulled into a static web site and rendered into a web page using Eleventy templates.

[zachleat]

I like this but can you use a markdown code block (the triple ```) instead of a remote image for the sample output?

[zachleat]

Sorry for the super late response here. Went down the road of pulling this one in and unfortunately the Google Sheets API has been removed by Google 😱

Gonna have to close this one as stale—sorry!!

[ludvig-larsson]

@zachleat Open it again!

Sheets v4 API can be used, see here https://developers.google.com/sheets/api/guides/migration

Instead of publishing the sheet on the web, you just create a API KEY in Google Console and pass it to the URL. Like this: https://sheets.googleapis.com/v4/spreadsheets/[[your-spreadsheet-id]]/values/Sheet1?key=[your-api-key]

Just tested and got the following output:

{
  "range": "Sheet1!A1:Z1000",
  "majorDimension": "ROWS",
  "values": [
    [
      "name",
      "age"
    ],
    [
      "Fluffy",
      "2"
    ],
    [
      "Snugglepants",
      "5"
    ],
    [
      "Lord Featherbottom",
      "4"
    ],
    [
      "Pennywise",
      "9"
    ]
  ]
}

[CanIGetaPR]

@crockwave are you still available to update this PR using the new sheets API?

[crockwave]

The web site I created this for is going out of service. I don't have a current application for this. I examined Google Sheets API V4 and was able to successfully run a sample GET on one of my sheets, but had to use OAuth rather than the general purpose API key that I generated. That GET returned JSON data.

https://developers.google.com/sheets/api/reference/rest/v4/spreadsheets.values/get

As long as you can generate an updated JSON data file before compiling your site, you should be able to accomplish the use case of a community edited Google sheet that is the data source for an Eleventy compiled static page