Google Form data to store in cloud SQL database - google-apps-script

Question

I'm new to Google Forms and Google Apps Script. I have ten Google Forms, and on submitting forms they populate a corresponding Google Sheet.
Now, here is what I want, on submitting form I want that information to also be stored in the cloud SQL database. What steps will accomplish that?

Answer 1

The normal data flow for a Google Form that is accepting responses and replicating them to a Spreadsheet looks like this:
You've got two opportunities for a Form Submission Trigger to replicate the form responses in your Cloud SQL database; you can either trigger from the Google Form Form submit event or the Google Sheets Form submit event.
Either way, you will have a script that gets called for every form submission, and an event object that contains the response values. Your trigger function should use the JDBC to connect to the database - that link includes an intro that walks you through the highlights.
Example
Say we have a form asking two questions, "Name" and "Age". That would result in 3 columns in our spreadsheet; "Timestamp" plus one for each question.
To match that, we have a Cloud SQL database set up with the same three columns.
A Google Sheets Form submit trigger function that wrote to a Cloud SQL database would look like this untested code:
// Replace the variables in this block with real values.
var address = 'database_IP_address';
var user = 'user_name';
var userPwd = 'user_password';
var db = 'database_name';
var dbUrl = 'jdbc:mysql://' + address + '/' + db;
// Receive form response and replicate to a row in SQL table
function handleFormSubmit( event ) {
var conn = Jdbc.getConnection(dbUrl, user, userPwd);
var stmt = conn.prepareStatement('INSERT INTO entries '
+ '(Timestamp, Name, Age) values (?, ?, ?)');
stmt.setString(1, event.namedValues['Timestamp']);
stmt.setString(2, event.namedValues['Name']);
stmt.setString(3, event.namedValues['Age']);
stmt.execute();
}

Answer 2

Posing an example of a solution I have working. I modified Mogsdad's script to use the most up to date parameters & connection function, and fixed the syntax errors.
//Event is automatially passed on form submission when executed as a trigger.
//It contains objects that the user submitted
function writeToCloudSQL(event) {
//Note we get subname from the 'Instance Connection Name' of the Overview tab in the CloudSQL portal
var subname = 'see image';
var user = 'user';
var userPwd = 'pwd';
var db = 'db_name';
var dbUrl = 'jdbc:google:mysql://' + subname + '/' + db;
var conn = Jdbc.getCloudSqlConnection(dbUrl, user, userPwd);
var stmt = conn.prepareStatement('INSERT INTO tbl_users (Timestamp, DL_ID, DOB, Last4SSN, HTMLGathered) values (NOW(), ?, ?, ?, \'No\');');
stmt.setString(1, event.namedValues['DL_ID']);
stmt.setString(2, event.namedValues['DOB']);
stmt.setString(3, event.namedValues['Last4SSN']);
stmt.execute();
}
Locating the subname:
Locating the subname
Read more about the Event parameter here:
https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/triggers/events
Read more about the connection string here:
https://developers.google.com/apps-script/reference/jdbc/jdbc#getCloudSqlConnection(String,String,String)
Also be sure you've allowed network access to google scripts
https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/jdbc?hl=en#using_jdbcgetconnectionurl

Answer 3

Zapier with their SQL Server and Google Sheets integrations can do this. I'm not affiliated.
https://zapier.com/apps/sql-server/integrations

Answer 4

If you don't want to roll your own solution, SeekWell lets you automatically send data from SQL to Sheets and can also sync changes from Sheets back to a database. Apps Script can do pieces of this, but I found it buggy and limited for our use case, so I built something else. There are both free and paid plans.
Disclaimer: I built this.