Transfer a HTML table (user input) to google sheets

Question

i want to transfer some user input data from a html page to my google sheet with google´s app scripts. I can do that for single values but could not figure out a nice way to

Answer 1

You can use Sheets API to parse and paste HTML directly.

FrontEnd.html Snippet:

let table = document.getElementById('tbl_posts').outerHTML;
google.script.run.pasteHtml(table);

Code.gs Snippet:

function pasteHtml(table) {
  var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActive();
  var req = {
    requests: [
      {
        pasteData: {
          html: true,
          data: table,
          coordinate: {
            sheetId: ss.getSheets()[1].getSheetId(), //second sheet!A1
            rowIndex: 0,
            columnIndex: 0,
          },
        },
      },
    ],
  };
  Sheets.Spreadsheets.batchUpdate(req, ss.getId());
}

To Read:

• pasteData Request
• Enabling Sheets Advanced Services