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gsheet.action

v1.0.0

gsheet.action

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gsheet.action

This action helps in CRUD operations on a google sheet

Installation

Copy and paste the following snippet into your .yml file.

              

- name: gsheet.action

uses: jroehl/gsheet.action@v1.0.0

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gsheet.action

A github action to help with CRUD operations on google sheets.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

Secrets required as environment variables

  • GSHEET_CLIENT_EMAIL (email of the service account that has permission to access the spreadsheet)
  • GSHEET_PRIVATE_KEY (private key of the service account that has permission to access the spreadsheet)

Setup in github action workflow (v2)

name: gsheet.action test
on: push

jobs:
  fetch:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - id: 'update_worksheet'
        uses: jroehl/gsheet.action@v1.0.0 # you can specify '@release' to always have the latest changes
        with:
          spreadsheetId: <spreadsheetId>
          commands: | # list of commands, specified as a valid JSON string
            [
              { "command": "addWorksheet", "args": { "worksheetTitle": "<worksheetTitle>" }},
              { "command": "updateData", "args": { "data": [["A1", "A2", "A3"]] }},
              { "command": "getData", "args": { "range": "'<worksheetTitle>'!A2:B3" } }
            ]
        env:
          GSHEET_CLIENT_EMAIL: ${{ secrets.GSHEET_CLIENT_EMAIL }}
          GSHEET_PRIVATE_KEY: ${{ secrets.GSHEET_PRIVATE_KEY }}
      - name: dump results
        env:
          #  the output of the action can be found in ${{ steps.update_worksheet.outputs.results }}
          RESULTS: ${{ steps.update_worksheet.outputs.results }}
        run: echo "$RESULTS" | jq

See ./github/workflows/e2e.yml for another example.

Supported commands

addSpreadsheet

Add a spreadsheet with the specified title to the spreadsheet

  • args
    • spreadsheetTitle:string - The title of the worksheet

getSpreadsheet

Get a spreadsheet with the specified title

  • args
    • [spreadsheetId]?:string - The id of the spreadsheet (needed if no previous command set the spreadsheetId globally)

addWorksheet

Add a worksheet with the specified title to the spreadsheet

  • args
    • worksheetTitle:string - The title of the worksheet (needed if no previous command set the worksheetTitle globally)
    • [spreadsheetId]?:string - The id of the spreadsheet (needed if no previous command set the spreadsheetId globally)

getWorksheet

Get a worksheet with the specified title

  • args
    • worksheetTitle:string - The title of the worksheet (needed if no previous command set the worksheetTitle globally)
    • [spreadsheetId]?:string - The id of the spreadsheet (needed if no previous command set the spreadsheetId globally)

removeWorksheet

Remove an existing worksheet with the specified title

  • args
    • worksheetTitle:string - The title of the worksheet (needed if no previous command set the worksheetTitle globally)
    • [spreadsheetId]?:string - The id of the spreadsheet (needed if no previous command set the spreadsheetId globally)

updateData

Updates cells with the specified data (at the specified range)

  • args
    • data:string - The data to be used as a JSON string - nested array [["1", "2", "3"]]
    • [spreadsheetId]?:string - The id of the spreadsheet (needed if no previous command set the spreadsheetId globally)
    • [minRow=1]?:number - Starting row of the operation
    • [minCol=1]?:number - Starting row of the operation
    • [range]?:string - Range in a1 notation to be used for the operation
    • [valueInputOption=RAW]?:string - The input value to be used
    • [worksheetTitle]?:string - The title of the worksheet (needed if no previous command set the worksheetTitle globally)

appendData

Append cells with the specified data after the last row (in starting col)

  • args
    • data:string - The data to be used as a JSON string - nested array [["1", "2", "3"]]
    • [spreadsheetId]?:string - The id of the spreadsheet (needed if no previous command set the spreadsheetId globally)
    • [minCol=1]?:number - Starting row of the operation
    • [range]?:string - Range in a1 notation to be used for the operation
    • [valueInputOption=RAW]?:string - The input value to be used
    • [worksheetTitle]?:string - The title of the worksheet (needed if no previous command set the worksheetTitle globally)

getData

Get cell data (within specified range)

  • args
    • [spreadsheetId]?:string - The id of the spreadsheet (needed if no previous command set the spreadsheetId globally)
    • [minRow=1]?:number - Starting row of the operation
    • [minCol=1]?:number - Starting row of the operation
    • [maxRow]?:number - Last row of the operation
    • [maxCol]?:number - Last row of the operation
    • [range]?:string - Range in a1 notation to be used for the operation
    • [hasHeaderRow]?:boolean - If the first row should be treated as header row
    • [worksheetTitle]?:string - The title of the worksheet (needed if no previous command set the worksheetTitle globally)

Build with

Contributing

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for details on our code of conduct, and the process for submitting pull requests to us.

Versioning

We use SemVer for versioning. For the versions available, see the tags on this repository.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details