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Google Spreadsheet to DB

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Fetch Google Sheets with Google Sheets API (v4) and store it to your WordPress database. You can also filter that data before saving.

Requirements

Installation

1. Clone this Repo into your wp-content/plugins directory.
$ cd /path-to-your/wp-content/plugins/
$ git clone git@github.com:sectsect/google-spreadsheet-to-db.git
2. Install composer packages
$ cd google-spreadsheet-to-db/functions/composer/
$ composer install
3. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.

That's it:ok_hand:

Settings

Getting Your Spreadsheet Ready for Programmatic Access

By default, a new spreadsheet cannot be accessed via Google’s API. We’ll need to go to your Google APIs console and create a new project and set it up to expose your Spreadsheets’ data.

  1. Go to the Google APIs Console.
  2. Create a new project.
  3. Click Enable API. Search for and enable the Google Sheets API.
  4. Create credentials for a Web Server to access Application Data.
  5. Name the service account and grant it a Project Role of Editor.
  6. Download the JSON file.
  7. Copy the JSON file to your app directory and rename it to client_secret.json
  8. ⚠️ Set client_secret.json in a location to deny web access on your server.

We now have a big chunk of authentication information, including what Google calls a client_email, which uniquely represents this OAuth service account.
Grab the value of client_email from your client_secret.json, and head back to your spreadsheet. Click the Share button in the top right, and paste the client_email value into the field to give it edit rights.
Hit send. That’s it! 👌

  1. Set the define() constants for client_secret.json in wp-config.php.
define( 'GOOGLE_SS2DB_CLIENT_SECRET_PATH', '/path/to/your/client_secret.json' );
  1. Go to Settings -> Google Spreadsheet to DB on your WordPress Admin-Panel.
  2. Set the following values and save it once.
  • Data format to be stored in database
    • json_encode
    • json_encode (JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE)
  1. Click the Import from Google Spreadsheet button. 🎉
  • Spreadsheet ID
  • Spreadsheet name (Optional)
  • Single Sheet name
  • Top Header Row
  • Title (Optional)

Filters

Filtering the Array

You can edit the array got from Google API with add_filter( 'google_ss2db_before_save', $function_to_add ) in your functions.php before saving to database.

add_filter( 'google_ss2db_before_save', function ( $row, $worksheetid, $worksheetname, $sheetname ) {
  // Example
  if ( $worksheetname === 'My Spreadsheet' && $sheetname === 'Sheet1' ) {
    // Do something.
    $return = $something;
  } else {
    $return = $row;
  }

  return $return;
}, 10, 3 );

And also use add_filter('google_ss2db_after_save', $return_array ) to perform any processing with the return value.

add_filter( 'google_ss2db_after_save', function ( $array ) {
  if ( 'My Spreadsheet' === $worksheetname ) {
    // $id              = $array['id'];
    // $date            = $array['date'];
    // $title           = $array['title'];
    // $value           = $array['value'];
    // $work_sheet_id   = $array['worksheet_id'];
    // $work_sheet_name = $array['worksheet_name'];
    // $sheet_name      = $array['sheet_name'];
    // $result          = $array['result'];
    
    // Do something...
    $return = $something;
  } else {
    $return = $array;
  }

  return $return;
} );

APIs

new Google_Spreadsheet_To_DB_Query();

Parameters

Parameter Type Notes Default Value
where array array()
relation string AND or OR AND
[array] array
key string id or date or worksheet_id or worksheet_name or sheet_name or title false
value int e.g. 3 / 2020-09-01 12:00:00 false
compare string e.g. = > < >= <= <> != =
orderby string id or date or worksheet_id or worksheet_name or sheet_name or title date
order string DESC or ASC DESC
limit int number of row to get All Data
📝 You can also use -1 to get all data.
offset int number of row to displace or pass over 0

Usage Example

Get all rows

$sheet = new Google_Spreadsheet_To_DB_Query();
$rows  = $sheet->getrow();
foreach ( $rows as $row ) {
  $id   = $row->id;
  $date = $row->date;
  $val  = json_decode( $row->value );
}

Get 3 rows from the 4th in ascending order by ID

$args = array(
  'orderby' => 'id',
  'order'   => 'ASC',
  'limit'   => 3,
  'offset'  => 3,
);
$sheet = new Google_Spreadsheet_To_DB_Query( $args );
$rows  = $sheet->getrow();
foreach ( $rows as $row ) {
  $id   = $row->id;
  $date = $row->date;
  $val  = json_decode( $row->value );
}

Get the row with specific ID

$args = array(
  'where' => array(
    array(
      'key'   => 'id',
      'value' => 3,
    )
  ),
);

Get 3 rows with specific Worksheet ordered by ID

$args = array(
  'orderby' => 'id',
  'order'   => 'ASC',
  'limit'   => 3,
  'where'   => array(
    array(
      'key'     => 'worksheet_name',
      'value'   => 'My Spreadsheet',
      'compare' => '='
    ),
  ),
);

Get the rows larger than or equal the specified datetime

$args = array(
  'where' => array(
    array(
      'key'     => 'date',
      'value'   => '2020-08-01 12:34:56',
      'compare' => '>=',
    )
  ),
);

Get the rows with multiple conditions

$args = array(
  'orderby' => 'id',
  'order'   => 'DESC',
  'limit'   => 10,
  'offset'  => 10,
  'where'   => array(
    'relation' => 'AND', // or 'OR'
    array(
      'key'     => 'date',
      'value'   => '2020-08-01 12:34:56',
      'compare' => '>='
    ),
    array(
      'key'     => 'worksheet_name',
      'value'   => 'My Spreadsheet',
      'compare' => '='
    ),
  ),
);

Notes

  • Tested on WP v4.8.0

Notes for Developer

  • This plugin saves Spreadsheet's data to the global area, not to each post. If you want to have Spredsheet data for individual posts, you can link data ID with custom fields.

  • The data is added and stored in the wp_google_ss2db table as a JSON-encoded array.

    id date worksheet_id worksheet_name sheet_name title value
    1 2021-08-27 00:00:00 1BxiMVs0XRA5nFMdKvBdBZjgmUUqptlbs74OgvE2upms My Spreadsheet Sheet1 Data-01 {"area":{"a":["brooklyn","bronx","Queens","Manhattan"],"b":["brooklyn","bronx","Queens","Manhattan"]}}
  • This Plugin does not hosting on the wordpress.org repo in order to prevent a flood of support requests from wide audience.

Change log

See CHANGELOG file.

License

See LICENSE file.

Known Issues

Call to undefined method GuzzleHttp\Utils::chooseHandler()

  • google/apiclient v2.6.0 or later used inside Google Sheets API (v4) has v7 in guzzlehttp/guzzle added as a dependency.

  • guzzlehttp/guzzle v7 throws the following error.

    Call to undefined method GuzzleHttp\Utils::chooseHandler()
    
  • So force downgrade below to v6 of guzzlehttp/guzzle because rollback and errors are resolved

    composer require guzzlehttp/guzzle:~6.0 --with-all-dependencies
    
    OUTPUT
    % composer require guzzlehttp/guzzle:~6.0 --with-all-dependencies
    ./composer.json has been updated
    Running composer update guzzlehttp/guzzle --with-all-dependencies
    Loading composer repositories with package information
    Updating dependencies
    Lock file operations: 3 installs, 2 updates, 3 removals
      - Removing psr/http-client (1.0.1)
      - Removing psr/http-factory (1.0.1)
      - Removing symfony/deprecation-contracts (v2.5.2)
      - Downgrading guzzlehttp/guzzle (7.5.0 => 6.5.8)
      - Downgrading guzzlehttp/psr7 (2.4.1 => 1.9.0)
      - Locking symfony/polyfill-intl-idn (v1.26.0)
      - Locking symfony/polyfill-intl-normalizer (v1.26.0)
      - Locking symfony/polyfill-php72 (v1.26.0)
    Writing lock file
    Installing dependencies from lock file (including require-dev)
    Package operations: 3 installs, 2 updates, 3 removals
      - Downloading guzzlehttp/psr7 (1.9.0)
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      - Downloading guzzlehttp/guzzle (6.5.8)
      - Removing symfony/deprecation-contracts (v2.5.2)
      - Removing psr/http-factory (1.0.1)
      - Removing psr/http-client (1.0.1)
      - Downgrading guzzlehttp/psr7 (2.4.1 => 1.9.0): Extracting archive
      - Installing symfony/polyfill-php72 (v1.26.0): Extracting archive
      - Installing symfony/polyfill-intl-normalizer (v1.26.0): Extracting archive
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      - Downgrading guzzlehttp/guzzle (7.5.0 => 6.5.8): Extracting archive
    Generating autoload files
    8 packages you are using are looking for funding.
    Use the `composer fund` command to find out more!
    No security vulnerability advisories found
    
    % composer show
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    google/apiclient                 v2.12.6   Client library for Google APIs
    google/apiclient-services        v0.271.0  Client library for Google APIs
    google/auth                      v1.23.0   Google Auth Library for PHP
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    guzzlehttp/psr7                  1.9.0     PSR-7 message implementation that also provides common utility methods
    monolog/monolog                  2.8.0     Sends your logs to files, sockets, inboxes, databases and various web services
    paragonie/constant_time_encoding v2.6.3    Constant-time Implementations of RFC 4648 Encoding (Base-64, Base-32, Base-16)
    paragonie/random_compat          v9.99.100 PHP 5.x polyfill for random_bytes() and random_int() from PHP 7
    phpseclib/phpseclib              3.0.16    PHP Secure Communications Library - Pure-PHP implementations of RSA, AES, SSH2, SFTP, X.509 etc.
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    ralouphie/getallheaders          3.0.3     A polyfill for getallheaders.
    symfony/polyfill-intl-idn        v1.26.0   Symfony polyfill for intl's idn_to_ascii and idn_to_utf8 functions
    symfony/polyfill-intl-normalizer v1.26.0   Symfony polyfill for intl's Normalizer class and related functions
    symfony/polyfill-php72           v1.26.0   Symfony polyfill backporting some PHP 7.2+ features to lower PHP versions
    

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A little project by @sectsect