Hacking stuff together with Google Spreadsheets

Hacking stuff together with Google SpreadsheetsMartin Hawksey (@mhawksey) This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. CC-BY Martin Hawksey

What Some basic spreadsheet tricks • Filter/sort data • Import html and feeds More advanced fun with Google Apps Script • Making your own interfaces • Integrating with other Google Services • Remixing 3rd party APIs All the links used in this presentation are in http://bit.ly/Dev8EdGoog <- case sensitive This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. CC-BY Martin Hawksey http://bit.ly/Dev8EdGoog

Basic tricks =UNIQUE =FILTER =SPLIT/JOIN =IMPORT… This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. CC-BY Martin Hawksey http://bit.ly/Dev8EdGoog

Example 1: Basic Voting System Using a Google Spreadsheet form as a basic voting system Goto http://hawksey.info/form.html and for the question identification enter: dev1 What do you think will happen next with Facebook A. They’ll become ‘The Internet’ B. Mark Zuckerberg will end up in prison for tax avoidance C. It will be revealed that Bill Gates travelled to an alternate universe kidnapping a younger version of himself before enrolling him a Stanford as … Mark Zuckerberg D. All of the above Results This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. CC-BY Martin Hawksey http://bit.ly/Dev8EdGoog

Example 2: Olympic Medal Table  Pulling live data feeds from other sites (See Using importHTML to create a Winter Olympics 2010 Medal Map) This work is licensed under a Creative Related spreadsheet Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. CC-BY Martin Hawksey http://bit.ly/Dev8EdGoog

More advanced: Google Apps Script Google Apps Script is a JavaScript cloud scripting language that provides easy ways to automate tasks across Google products and third party services. • Create custom spreadsheet functions. • Automate repetitive processes and workflows. • Build rich graphical user interfaces and menus. • Link Google products with third party services. https://developers.google.com/apps-script/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. CC-BY Martin Hawksey http://bit.ly/Dev8EdGoog

Apps Script 101 JavaScript executed server side Cloud based scripting Can publish ‘as service’ (exposes a url for you to hit with POST/GET) Integrates with Google authentication This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. CC-BY Martin Hawksey http://bit.ly/Dev8EdGoog

Example 3: Custom formula to dashboardproject/course blog feeds Custom function to fetchUrlfromRSS() This work is licensed under a Creative Related spreadsheet Related post Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. CC-BY Martin Hawksey http://bit.ly/Dev8EdGoog

Example 4: Automating repetitive tasks andcustom interfaces in Fast-Tracking Feedback This work is licensed under a Creative Related post Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. CC-BY Martin Hawksey http://bit.ly/Dev8EdGoog

Example 5a: Linking to other services(Archiving Tweets – TAGS) This work is licensed under a Creative Related post Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. CC-BY Martin Hawksey http://bit.ly/Dev8EdGoog

Google Spreadsheet as a datastore This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. CC-BY Martin Hawksey http://bit.ly/Dev8EdGoog

Google Spreadsheets as a datastore This work is licensed under a Creative Related post Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. CC-BY Martin Hawksey http://bit.ly/Dev8EdGoog

Questions? Martin Hawksey @mhawksey This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. CC-BY Martin Hawksey http://bit.ly/Dev8EdGoog

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