Is it possible to create a public database (spreadsheet) search with Google Scripts?

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I\'m trying to create a website where users can come and look for a set of resources, something like a portal, or a database like JSTOR. I am using Weebly; this website will ev

Answer 1

Yes this is certainly possible, but can achieved in a variety of ways.

One approach you could take with this is to retrieve all the data from the spreadsheet as JSON format and add it to the DOM as a HTML table. Then you can use a nice plugin like dataTables which has a pretty good native search function. I'll give a basic example below.

To retrieve the data you can use Googles spreadsheet JSON API. A basic example is below.

• Where ID is the spreadsheet's long ID.
• Where WS is the worksheet number e.g. 1,2,3 etc.
• Where FN is the function you want to call. In my below function i use importGSS

Then I've written the below script that adds the data to a HTML table. It first adds the first row to a section and then adds the rest to the section.

function cellEntries(json, dest) {
    var table = document.createElement('table');
    var thead = document.createElement('thead');
    var tbody = document.createElement('tbody');
    var thr;
    var tr;
    var entries = json.feed.entry;
    var cols = json.feed.gs$colCount.$t;

    for (var i=0; i 

You can then call back the function with ... where #Destination is the

you want to add the HTML table to.

function importGSS(json){
   cellEntries(json, '#Destination');
};

Once all completed you'll see something like the below screenshot, the top the final results and the bottom the original spreadsheet. I've edited out some information. I hope this has been of some help.

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