New Google Spreadsheets publish limitation

Question

I am testing the new Google Spreadsheets as there is a new feature I really need: the 200 sheets limit has been lifted (more info here: https://support.google.com/drive/answ

Answer 1

It's not going to help everyone, but I've made a PHP script to read the HTML into an array.

I've added converting back to a CSV at the end. Hopefully this will help some people who have access to PHP.

$html_link  = "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/XXXXXXXXXX/pubhtml";
$local_html = "sheets.html";

$file_contents = file_get_contents($html_link);
file_put_contents($local_html,$file_contents);

$dom        = new DOMDocument();  
$html       = @$dom->loadHTMLFile($local_html);  //Added a @ to hide warnings - you might remove this when testing
$dom->preserveWhiteSpace = false;   


$tables     = $dom->getElementsByTagName('table');   
$rows       = $tables->item(0)->getElementsByTagName('tr'); 
$cols       = $rows->item(0)->getElementsByTagName('td');  //You'll need to edit the (0) to reflect the row that your headers are in.

$row_headers = array();
foreach ($cols as $i => $node) {
    if($i > 0 ) $row_headers[] = $node->textContent;
}  

foreach ($rows as $i => $row){   
    if($i == 0 ) continue;
    $cols = $row->getElementsByTagName('td');   
    $row = array();
    foreach ($cols as $j => $node) {
        $row[$row_headers[$j]] = $node->textContent;
    }   
    $table[] = $row;
} 

//Convert to csv
$csv = "";
foreach($table as $row_index => $row_details){
    $comma      = false;
    foreach($row_details as $value){
        $value_quotes = str_replace('"', '""', $value);
        $csv .= ($comma ? "," : "") . ( strpos($value,",")===false ? $value_quotes : '"'.$value_quotes.'"'  );
        $comma = true;
    }
    $csv .= "\r\n";
}

//Save to a file and/or output 
file_put_contents("result.csv",$csv);
print $csv;

Answer 2

I found a fix! So I discovered that old spreadsheets before this change were still allowing only publishing certain sheets. So I made a copy of an old spreadsheet, cleared the data out, copy and pasted my current info into it and now I'm happily publishing just a single sheet of my large spreadsheet. Yay

Answer 3

If you enable "Anyone with the link sharing" for spreadsheet, here is a simple method to get range of cells or columns (or whatever your feel like) export in format of HTML, CSV, XML, JSON via the query:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/tq?key=YOUR-KEY&gid=1&tq=select%20A,%20B&tqx=reqId:1;out:html;%20responseHandler:webQuery

• For tq variable read query language reference.
• For tqx variable read request format reference.

Downside to this is that your doc is still availble in full via the public link, but if you want to export/import data to say Excel this is a perfect way.

Answer 4

Here is the solution, just write it like this:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/<KEY>/export?format=csv&id=<KEY>

I know it's weird to write the KEY twice, but it works perfectly. A teammate from work discovered this by opening the excel file in Google Docs, then File -> Download as -> Comma separated values. Then, in the downloads section of the browser appears a link to the CSV file, like this: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/<KEY>/export?format=csv&id=<KEY>&gid=<SOME NUMBER> But it doesn't work in this format, what my friend did was remove "&gid=<SOME NUMBER>" and it worked! Hope it helps everyone.

Answer 5

That new feature appears to have disappeared. I don't see any option to publish a csv/tsv version. I can download tsv/csv with the export, but that's not available to other people with merely the link (it redirects them to a google docs sign-in form).

Answer 6

The current answers do not work anylonger. The following has worked for me:

• Do File -> "Publish to the web" and select 'start publishing' and the format. I choose text (which is TSV)
• Now just copy the URL there which will be similar to https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=YOUR_KEY&single=true&gid=0&output=txt