Reading spreadsheets

Luís Oliveira luismbo at gmail.com
Wed May 22 09:43:53 UTC 2019


On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 10:36 AM Nick Levine <nick at nicklevine.org> wrote:
> Has anyone tried reading a google spreadsheet from lisp (Allegro)? Searching produced a couple of libraries for this, and neither of them compiled cleanly (which is not where I wanted to spend my morning).

Would downloading the speadsheet in CSV format help or do you need to
access formulas, mark-up, etc? The CSV URL would be
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/{key}/gviz/tq?tqx=out:csv&sheet={sheet_name}
and then you could use one of the csv libraries.

Cheers,

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Luís Oliveira
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