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Connect a Google spreadsheet to an Epicollect5 public project
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Connect a Google spreadsheet to an Epicollect5 public project
Last updated
Using the Epicollect5 API, it is possible to export entries in csv format.
The project must be public to work with Google Sheets.
If you have a private project, have a look at the Survey Toolkit code here.
Google Sheets features the =IMPORTDATA() function to import data at a given url in .csv (comma-separated value)
IMPORTDATA() Official Docs -> https://support.google.com/docs/answer/3093335?hl=en
Create a new sheet and click on the first cell. Paste the following in:
After the entries are loaded, it will look like below.
For this example, the public EC5 Demo Project was used.
The URL passed in the IMPORTDATA() function will load the latest 1000 entries as we passed the parameter per_page=1000 and page=1
To get more entries (if any) we need to add more IMPORTDATA() calls and tweak the URL to get a different page ie. 2, 3, 4 and so on.
It is possible to have up to 50 IMPORTDATA()calls on a single spreadsheet in Google Sheets.
One way to do that would be to create another sheet on the same file and repeat the procedure above, this time using a parameterpage=2in the URL.
Another option is to load the first 1000 entries and the headers on the first cell, then on row 1002 load the next 1000 entries omitting the headers in the request by passing the parameter headers=false. This way 2000 entries will be loaded on the same sheet.
The spreadsheet in the example can be viewed at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XibVZ5RXxT9ZfrDUx403I0ZTS0MHe1h26tlFP0dM-bU/edit?usp=sharing
Full API guide at https://developers.epicollect.net
Resource at URL content exceeded maximum size
This error on Google Sheets means the dataset you are trying to import is too big in size.
Try to lower the number of entries on eachimportdata() call.
