I am trying to import about a 15,000 row csv file to a google sheet that we use.
I thought the import csv would work but i can figure out how to write it to make it work.
any help would be great.
to clarify i am trying to get a raspberry pi to update it via python.
upload your csv file in google drive. right click on csv file and select open with google sheets. it will load your csv data in google sheet and you can also download as xlsx in google sheets
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I often make spreadsheets in Google Sheets by importing a collection of csv files. But whenever I import a csv file into a Google Sheets document, the csv file is uploaded to my Google Drive as well.
As a result, I have a huge number of csv files in my Google Drive that I don't want.
Can I stop this from happening? I want to import the csv into the Google Sheets document but I don't also need the csv file in my Google Drive.
A follow-up question is: if I can't prevent the csv from being uploaded to my drive, can I delete the csv from my drive without affecting the Google Sheets document?
This question is related to this one How to stop Google Sheets automatically saving downloaded CSV files to Google Drive, but they asked the question incorrectly, and never followed up with a corrected question.
The CSV files being uploaded to the Google Drive is necessary. It is due to the fact that Google Sheets will only look for the source files to be imported either from your personal Google Drive or from other people's Google Drive that are shared with you.
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As for your issue on multiple csv files, you can create a script to automatically delete csv files from your Google Drive. However, the only available feature in Google Apps Script is to move the said files to a folder using the File.moveTo(destination) function since the removeFile(child) function was already deprecated. Afterwards, you may use the setTrashed(trashed) function to send the files to the trash folder.
References:
You may view the following links for further details on how to apply the suggestion.
removeFile(child)
moveTo(destination)
setTrashed(trashed)
Google Apps Script Deleting Google Drive Files in Folder Example
I have a Google Sheet that I'm wanting to overwrite data on every day with a HTML link download that will also require a login and password to access. Is there a way to use Google Sheets scripts to accomplish this? For Example. I'd like to import and overwrite starting with cell A1 with the first csv file, BA2 with the 2nd csv file, and DA2 with the third csv file.
For the last year I've had to manually download, and manually import these files each day for our reports to show up correctly.
I just want to import CSV. file from the link in specific gmail to google sheet automatically by using Apps script.
But I only got some examples about attachment, not link.
The Gmail that I want to import has the URL link which is the link for downloading CSV file.
Is there any possibility?
Create a new Google Sheets spreadsheet, and type into a cell =IMPORTDATA("URL") where URL is the link containing the CSV file. Read more here from Google's help page.
In my Google App Maker application, I am trying to convert a large, user-uploaded Excel CSV file to Google Sheet. I have previously used these lines of code to convert smaller-size, user-uploaded Excel CSV files to Google Sheets:
var xlsxBlob = DriveApp.getFileById(xlsxFileID).getBlob();
var file = {
};
file = Drive.Files.update(file, ssFileID, xlsxBlob, {
convert: true
});
When I try uploading a large Excel CSV file, I get this error:
Exception: File NAME.csv exceeds the maximum file size
My Excel CSV file is 56.5 MB. Is there any way to convert a large Excel CSV file to Google Sheet? I tried following this website: https://www.geek.com/apps/geek-101-how-to-open-a-csv-document-with-google-docs-1551489/ which converts a CSV file to Google Sheet immediately upon upload. However, I get an error: Upload failed. Thank you very much!
You probably have to break your csv into smaller chunks. Also, if the number of fields in the csv file is in excess of 2 million cells then you have another problem on your hands since a google sheet's max cell count is 2 million.
Google Sheets are not designed to handle large databases so you may have to look into using an alternative solution; if you plan on keeping your dev stack under Google's Cloud platform you can try Big Query, Cloud SQL, Cloud Datastore or Cloud Firestore.
I have a list of customer names i would like to import into my spreadsheet from a CSV file. Preferably every hour.
The IMPORTDATA function works fantastic for this kind of operation.
The problem is that i don't want to store a CSV file with peoples names publicly. What would be your best suggestion to importing a CSV file to Google sheets without storing it on a publicly accessible URL? As i understand it there's no way to get Google Sheets to work via FTP?
You could store it in your own Google Drive.
From there you could handle the import with Apps Script instead of import range