How to Write JSON to a Google Spreadsheet
The WriteJSONtoSheet method take a JSON object and appends it as a new row in a Google Spreadsheet. It takes the keys of the JSON object, matches them with the header row of the spreadsheet and arranges the columns accordingly. If there’s no column corresponding to a key, it is automatically added. This is handy for logging operations and data objects in a Google Sheet for easy analysis.
// Written by Amit Agarwal www.ctrlq.org
function writeJSONtoSheet(json) {
var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
var keys = Object.keys(json).sort();
var last = sheet.getLastColumn();
var header = sheet.getRange(1, 1, 1, last).getValues()[0];
var newCols = [];
for (var k = 0; k < keys.length; k++) {
if (header.indexOf(keys[k]) === -1) {
newCols.push(keys[k]);
}
}
if (newCols.length > 0) {
sheet.insertColumnsAfter(last, newCols.length);
sheet.getRange(1, last + 1, 1, newCols.length).setValues([newCols]);
header = header.concat(newCols);
}
var row = [];
for (var h = 0; h < header.length; h++) {
row.push(header[h] in json ? json[header[h]] : '');
}
sheet.appendRow(row);
}
Amit Agarwal
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