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I'm guessing I'm simply not considering the target audience, but so far as I know the groups (people who communicate primarily via spreadsheets) and (people who know what an API is) have a fairly small overlap. Maybe I'm just underestimating how widely used spreadsheets are for communicating programming information. I've never seen it, but hey, I've never seen a lot of things.
Neat. I'll be interested to see how access restriction by user is handled? Obscure header key or URL? Something authenticated? I guess I will have to sign up to find out. It doesn't appear to be documented publicly.
If an API requires authentication, then you'll need to login to see documentation or query it.
There's a little about it on https://sheetlabs.com/#/docs at the bottom, but you're right that the docs need to be fleshed out more fully and linked from the front page.
I'm guessing I'm simply not considering the target audience, but so far as I know the groups (people who communicate primarily via spreadsheets) and (people who know what an API is) have a fairly small overlap. Maybe I'm just underestimating how widely used spreadsheets are for communicating programming information. I've never seen it, but hey, I've never seen a lot of things.
I've done quite a bit of freelance web development, mostly in the telecoms and infrastructure sectors, and there was often a requirement to integrate with a third party. This "integration" almost always took the form of periodically receiving spreadsheets from them, manually importing them into our database, and then also handling the periodic updates. And the apps I was building only needed to query a few rows each day! Sometimes they'd eventually create an API, but most said they couldn't or wouldn't due to time or complexity. Sheetlabs is my attempt at removing some of these barriers.
Anyway, that was _my_ itch, and this is how I'm scratching it!
The phrase "There's so many things that can go wrong with this" is really bothering me. I don't know why this mistake catches my attention, but it does. I probably speak that way but it should be written "There are" instead of "There is". Hopefully this sounds like creative criticism and not just bashing. I noticed that samcrawford is watching these comments.