Googlesheet APIv4 getting empty cells

Question

I have a googlesheet where a column may contain no information in it. While iterating through the rows and looking at that column, if the column is blank, it\'s not returni

Answer 1

I experienced the same issue using V4 of the sheets api but was able to workaround this using an extra column at the end of my range and the valueRenderOption argument for the values.get API

Given three columns, A, B and C any of which might contain a null value, add an additional column, D and add an arbitrary value here such as 'blank'.

Ensure you capture the new column in your range and add the additional parameter,

valueRenderOption: 'FORMATTED_VALUE'.

You should end up with a call similar to this:

sheets.spreadsheets.values.get({
  spreadsheetId: SOME_SHEET_ID,
  range: "AUTOMATION!A:D",
  valueRenderOption: 'FORMATTED_VALUE'
}, (err, res) => {})

This should then give you a consistent length array for each value, returning a blank string "" in the place of the empty cell value.