Google Sheets

Connect a Google spreadsheet to an Epicollect5 public project

Using the Epicollect5 API, it is possible to export entries in csv format.

Google Sheets features the =IMPORTDATA() function to import data at a given url in .csv (comma-separated value)

Create a new sheet and click on the first cell. Paste the following in:

=IMPORTDATA("https://five.epicollect.net/api/export/entries/ec5-demo-project?form_ref=b963c3867b1441b89cb552b982f04bc8_5784e0609397d&format=csv&per_page=1000&page=1")

After the entries are loaded, it will look like below.

Entries loaded in Google Sheets

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.

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.

Loading entries in separate sheets

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.

Loading entries in 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

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