Comments on: Make use of Google Spreadsheets in your php scripts

By: geetika

geetika — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 14:39:00 +0000

How can i use private google spreadsheet.

By: Troy Kelly

Troy Kelly — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 07:34:00 +0000

Just had to make a minor modification to the substr line – I am using the below and it is working

// extract pure JSON from response
$str = mb_ereg_replace(“// API callbackn_(“, “”, $str);
$str = mb_ereg_replace(“);$”, “”, $str);
$data = json_decode($str, true);

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 22:26:00 +0000

I wrote this article about a year ago, google APIs may have been changed since that time.
I tried to download data URI for your spreadsheet and here’s what it says:
wget -S "https://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/cells/0Aj-ZlsTpsY_wdEhIdTdhYzlmTmdEMXhjVEJaWERtUFE/1/public/basic?alt=json-in-script&callback=_" --2012-03-29 01:17:05-- https://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/cells/0Aj-ZlsTpsY_wdEhIdTdhYzlmTmdEMXhjVEJaWERtUFE/1/public/basic?alt=json-in-script&callback=_ Resolving spreadsheets.google.com... 209.85.148.101, 209.85.148.102, 209.85.148.113, ... Connecting to spreadsheets.google.com|209.85.148.101|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 x-chromium-appcache-fallback-override: disallow-fallback Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 22:17:07 GMT Expires: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 22:17:07 GMT Cache-Control: private, max-age=0 X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block Server: GSE Transfer-Encoding: chunked 2012-03-29 01:17:06 ERROR 400: Bad Request.

I would consider using Gdata library, there should be some demos of working with spreadsheets.
Google changes their APIs too often :(

By: Shaun Scovil

Shaun Scovil — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 22:09:00 +0000

Oops! I spoke to soon…this actually didn’t work. I just fooled myself by accidentally re-displaying another variable. :-/

I cannot load the contents of a public Google Spreadsheet (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aj-ZlsTpsY_wdEhIdTdhYzlmTmdEMXhjVEJaWERtUFE ) no matter what I try. Any thoughts?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 21:03:00 +0000

Thanks! glad it helped you!

By: Shaun Scovil

Shaun Scovil — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:50:00 +0000

This is EXACTLY what I’ve been trying to do for a week now. Thank you. It it the solution to the problem I posted here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9890033/how-can-i-get-the-contents-of-a-google-spreadsheet-as-csv-data-in-the-simplest-w/9915327#9915327

I am adapting this function for use in my WordPress plugin, WP-SortTable (coming soon), and will credit you in the code and readme.txt.