Advanced Sheets Service

  • The Advanced Sheets service allows Apps Script to interact with the Sheets API, enabling scripts to read, edit, format, and present data within Google Sheets.

  • This advanced service offers additional features beyond the built-in Google Sheets service, but requires enabling before use.

  • The service utilizes the same objects, methods, and parameters as the public Sheets API, mirroring its functionality within Apps Script.

  • It provides access to version 4 of the Sheets API, enabling actions such as reading and writing data, adding sheets, and creating pivot tables.

The Advanced Sheets service lets you access the Sheets API using Apps Script. Much like Apps Script's built-in Google Sheets API service, this API allows scripts to read, edit, format and present data in Google Sheets. In most cases, the built-in service is easier to use, but this advanced service provides a few extra features.

Reference

For detailed information on this service, see the reference documentation for the Sheets API. Like all advanced services in Apps Script, the advanced Sheets service uses the same objects, methods, and parameters as the public API. For more information, see How method signatures are determined.

To report issues and find other support, see the Sheets support guide.

Sample code

The sample code below uses version 4 of the API; this is the only version of the Sheets API currently available as an advanced service in Apps Script.

Read values from a range

The following example demonstrates how to read data values from a specified range in a sheet with the Sheets advanced service. It is equivalent to the Read a single range recipe sample.

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/**
 * Read a range (A1:D5) of data values. Logs the values.
 * @param {string} spreadsheetId The spreadsheet ID to read from.
 * @see https://developers.google.com/sheets/api/reference/rest/v4/spreadsheets.values/get
 */
function readRange(spreadsheetId = yourspreadsheetId) {
  try {
    const response = Sheets.Spreadsheets.Values.get(spreadsheetId, 'Sheet1!A1:D5');
    if (response.values) {
      console.log(response.values);
      return;
    }
    console.log('Failed to get range of values from spreadsheet');
  } catch (e) {
    // TODO (developer) - Handle exception
    console.log('Failed with error %s', e.message);
  }
}

Write values to multiple ranges

The following example demonstrates how to write data to different, disjoint ranges in a sheet with one request. It is equivalent to the Write to multiple ranges recipe sample.

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/**
 * Write to multiple, disjoint data ranges.
 * @param {string} spreadsheetId The spreadsheet ID to write to.
 * @see https://developers.google.com/sheets/api/reference/rest/v4/spreadsheets.values/batchUpdate
 */
function writeToMultipleRanges(spreadsheetId = yourspreadsheetId) {
  // Specify some values to write to the sheet.
  const columnAValues = [
    ['Item', 'Wheel', 'Door', 'Engine']
  ];
  const rowValues = [
    ['Cost', 'Stocked', 'Ship Date'],
    ['$20.50', '4', '3/1/2016']
  ];

  const request = {
    'valueInputOption': 'USER_ENTERED',
    'data': [
      {
        'range': 'Sheet1!A1:A4',
        'majorDimension': 'COLUMNS',
        'values': columnAValues
      },
      {
        'range': 'Sheet1!B1:D2',
        'majorDimension': 'ROWS',
        'values': rowValues
      }
    ]
  };
  try {
    const response = Sheets.Spreadsheets.Values.batchUpdate(request, spreadsheetId);
    if (response) {
      console.log(response);
      return;
    }
    console.log('response null');
  } catch (e) {
    // TODO (developer) - Handle  exception
    console.log('Failed with error %s', e.message);
  }
}

Add a new sheet

The following example demonstrates how to create a new sheet with specific size and tab color. It is equivalent to the Add a sheet recipe sample.

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/**
 * Add a new sheet with some properties.
 * @param {string} spreadsheetId The spreadsheet ID.
 * @see https://developers.google.com/sheets/api/reference/rest/v4/spreadsheets/batchUpdate
 */
function addSheet(spreadsheetId = yourspreadsheetId) {
  const requests = [{
    'addSheet': {
      'properties': {
        'title': 'Deposits',
        'gridProperties': {
          'rowCount': 20,
          'columnCount': 12
        },
        'tabColor': {
          'red': 1.0,
          'green': 0.3,
          'blue': 0.4
        }
      }
    }
  }];
  try {
    const response =
      Sheets.Spreadsheets.batchUpdate({'requests': requests}, spreadsheetId);
    console.log('Created sheet with ID: ' +
      response.replies[0].addSheet.properties.sheetId);
  } catch (e) {
    // TODO (developer) - Handle exception
    console.log('Failed with error %s', e.message);
  }
}

Create a pivot table

The following example demonstrates how to create a pivot table from source data. It is equivalent to the Add a pivot table recipe sample.

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/**
 * Add a pivot table.
 * @param {string} spreadsheetId The spreadsheet ID to add the pivot table to.
 * @param {string} pivotSourceDataSheetId The sheet ID to get the data from.
 * @param {string} destinationSheetId The sheet ID to add the pivot table to.
 * @see https://developers.google.com/sheets/api/reference/rest/v4/spreadsheets/batchUpdate
 */
function addPivotTable(
    spreadsheetId = yourspreadsheetId,
    pivotSourceDataSheetId= yourpivotSourceDataSheetId,
    destinationSheetId= yourdestinationSheetId) {
  const requests = [{
    'updateCells': {
      'rows': {
        'values': [
          {
            'pivotTable': {
              'source': {
                'sheetId': pivotSourceDataSheetId,
                'startRowIndex': 0,
                'startColumnIndex': 0,
                'endRowIndex': 20,
                'endColumnIndex': 7
              },
              'rows': [
                {
                  'sourceColumnOffset': 0,
                  'showTotals': true,
                  'sortOrder': 'ASCENDING',
                  'valueBucket': {
                    'buckets': [
                      {
                        'stringValue': 'West'
                      }
                    ]
                  }
                },
                {
                  'sourceColumnOffset': 1,
                  'showTotals': true,
                  'sortOrder': 'DESCENDING',
                  'valueBucket': {}
                }
              ],
              'columns': [
                {
                  'sourceColumnOffset': 4,
                  'sortOrder': 'ASCENDING',
                  'showTotals': true,
                  'valueBucket': {}
                }
              ],
              'values': [
                {
                  'summarizeFunction': 'SUM',
                  'sourceColumnOffset': 3
                }
              ],
              'valueLayout': 'HORIZONTAL'
            }
          }
        ]
      },
      'start': {
        'sheetId': destinationSheetId,
        'rowIndex': 49,
        'columnIndex': 0
      },
      'fields': 'pivotTable'
    }
  }];
  try {
    const response = Sheets.Spreadsheets.batchUpdate({'requests': requests}, spreadsheetId);
    // The Pivot table will appear anchored to cell A50 of the destination sheet.
  } catch (e) {
    // TODO (developer) - Handle exception
    console.log('Failed with error %s', e.message);
  }
}