Google Data API Query

Question

I use the Query https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/files/FileID/export?mimeType=text/tab-separated-values to download Google Sheets. My sheet has different tabs in it. Is there a way that I can download all the tabs in the sheet or a particular sheet with the name? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Based from this link, you can download a specific sheet using gID. Each sheet has a gID and you can find the gID of specific sheet in the URL of spreadsheet. You can use this link to download specific sheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/<KEY>/export?format=xlsx&gid=<GID>.

Example:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1D5vzPaOJOx402RAEF41235qQTOs28_M51ee5glzPzj0/export?format=xlsx&gid=1990092150

KEY is the unique ID of spreadsheet.

You may also refer with this thread on how to export sheets in a spreadsheet to csv in Google Apps using Google Apps Script.

Couldn't find any built in way to do it so I wrote a script to use in Google Sheets

Just paste it in script editor and run

function onOpen() {
  var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
  var csvMenuEntries = [{name: "export as csv files", functionName: "saveAsCSV"}];
  ss.addMenu("csv", csvMenuEntries);
};
 
function saveAsCSV() {
  var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
  var sheets = ss.getSheets();

  // create a folder from the name of the spreadsheet
  var folder = DocsList.createFolder(ss.getName().toLowerCase().replace(/ /g,'_') +'_csv_' + new Date().getTime());
  for (var i = 0 ; i < sheets.length ; i++) {
    var sheet = sheets[i];
    // append ".csv" extension to the sheet name
    fileName = sheet.getName() + ".csv";
    // convert all available sheet data to csv format
    var csvFile = convertRangeToCsvFile_(fileName, sheet);
    // create a file in the Docs List with the given name and the csv data
    folder.createFile(fileName, csvFile);
  }
  Browser.msgBox('Files are waitig in a folder named ' + folder.getName());
}
 
function convertRangeToCsvFile_(csvFileName, sheet) {
  // get available data range in the spreadsheet
  var activeRange = sheet.getDataRange();
  try {
    var data = activeRange.getValues();
    var csvFile = undefined;
 
    // loop through the data in the range and build a string with the csv data
    if (data.length > 1) {
      var csv = "";
      for (var row = 0; row < data.length; row++) {
        for (var col = 0; col < data[row].length; col++) {
          if (data[row][col].toString().indexOf(",") != -1) {
            data[row][col] = "\"" + data[row][col] + "\"";
          }
        }
 
        // join each row's columns
        // add a carriage return to end of each row, except for the last one
        if (row < data.length-1) {
          csv += data[row].join(",") + "\r\n";
        }
        else {
          csv += data[row];
        }
      }
      csvFile = csv;
    }
    return csvFile;
  }
  catch(err) {
    Logger.log(err);
    Browser.msgBox(err);
  }
}