I see that you request access to 'view and manage' the spreadsheets and files in my Google Drive? Is this for each spreadsheet/file or just the one I've linked to the in URL?
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#62I see that you request access to 'view and manage' the spreadsheets and files in my Google Drive? Is this for each spreadsheet/file or just the one I've linked to the in URL?
Right now it's for all. I'm actually fixing it right now, to be access only for the one specific file.
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#66I've used Google Spreadsheet as an "API" before (manually, not using this wrapper), and it is definitely not made to be used as such. Under heavy load, it slows down or times out, and even under the best circumstances it's not exactly fast. It's great in a pinch. My use-case was a spreadsheet that others in my organization wanted to edit, then we'd pull the data onto a web page and display nicely. It worked, but even…
I made this very basic plugin for Jekyll:
https://github.com/netlify/jekyll-gdrive
That'll let you use a Google spreadsheet as a datasource and expose the data to your liquid templates.
Combine it with something like https://www.netlify.com that'll run the builds for you and let you trigger builds via webhooks, and you have a Google spreadsheet based publishing engine where the final sites are completely static and live straight on a CDN.
Used it for one site where we used the scripting options of Google spreadsheets to add a "Publish Now" image button to the sheet, so in the end user could edit the the sheet, and then press "Publish" to trigger a build+deploy.
If the users are already used to spredsheets, it can be a really handy little anti CMS :)
[disclaimer: I'm a founder of netlify]
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#67I made a video showing how to send a Raspberry Pi's temperature sensor data to a Google Sheet using Cloudstitch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqa9Zkm7pCU
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#68So I threw this into a website to try and load some data into a table, and get: XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://sheetsu.com/apis/d54d6315?sort=Description&order=asc . No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. How do I handle that?
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#69I've used Google Spreadsheet as an "API" before (manually, not using this wrapper), and it is definitely not made to be used as such. Under heavy load, it slows down or times out, and even under the best circumstances it's not exactly fast. It's great in a pinch. My use-case was a spreadsheet that others in my organization wanted to edit, then we'd pull the data onto a web page and display nicely. It worked, but even…