Task
We have: a spreadsheet at Google Drive.
We need: to get that spreadsheet as a PHP array.
CSV format seems to be a suitable one for this task, though it allows to download one sheet only.
One-liner
Wget should be installed for this to work:
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| <?php | |
| $url = "https://docs.google.com/..."; | |
| $rows = array_map( | |
| 'str_getcsv', | |
| explode( | |
| "\n", | |
| `wget --no-check-certificate -O - -nv -q "$url"` | |
| ) | |
| ); | |
| ?> |
Expanded solution
Alternatively, we can use cURL:
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| <?php | |
| function get_goodle_drive_spreadsheet($url) { | |
| try { | |
| // We are going to use temporary file: | |
| $fh = fopen("php://temp", "w+"); | |
| if (!$fh) { | |
| throw new Exception("Can't open temporary file"); | |
| } | |
| $ch = curl_init($url); | |
| if (!$ch) { | |
| throw new Exception("Can't open cURL session"); | |
| } | |
| curl_setopt_array($ch, array( | |
| // Skip SSL havoc | |
| CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => false, | |
| // Allow redirects (there will be loads!) | |
| CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true, | |
| // Enable cookies (but use memory as storage) | |
| CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE => "", | |
| // Download to our temporary file | |
| CURLOPT_FILE => $fh, | |
| )); | |
| $r = curl_exec($ch); | |
| if ($r === false) { | |
| throw new Exception( | |
| "Failed downloading spreadsheet: " | |
| . curl_error($ch) | |
| ); | |
| } | |
| // Check if MIME is something CSV-related (to handle wrong document | |
| // key, invalid permissions, invalid sheet index) | |
| $mime_type = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_CONTENT_TYPE); | |
| if (!preg_match("/\bcsv\b/", $mime_type)) { | |
| throw new Exception("Invalid MIME type: $mime_type"); | |
| } | |
| curl_close($ch); | |
| // Now parse downloaded content as CSV | |
| rewind($fh); | |
| $result = array(); | |
| while (($row = fgetcsv($fh)) !== false) { | |
| $result[] = $row; | |
| } | |
| fclose($fh); | |
| return $result; | |
| } catch (Exception $e) { | |
| // Free resources in case of exception | |
| $ch && curl_close($ch); | |
| $fh && fclose($fh); | |
| throw $e; | |
| } | |
| } | |
| try { | |
| $url = "https://docs.google.com/..."; | |
| $data = get_goodle_drive_spreadsheet($url); | |
| print_r($data); | |
| } catch (Exception $e) { | |
| echo get_class($e) . ": " . $e->getMessage() . "\n"; | |
| } | |
| ?> |
How to get spreadsheet URL
Spreadsheet can be either shared via secret link or published. In both cases you should add &output=csv. Also, you can add &gid=N to get Nth sheet.
References
- Similar approach (discovered too late, doh!)
