Using google query to download parts of a published sheet

Question

This works:

curl 'https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vS3iBtVf4i_won5zAN9NGPqhcd6CcTb-4QHxpisSjCmlgV95B6mFmZvtMaC9GPvD7m8kD-6XLkVAhfc/pub?gid=911257845&single=true&output=csv'

however I want to only pick up rows where count > 300.

The query before encoding would be

select * where F > 300

After encoding

select%20*%20where%20F%3E300

So the url becomes

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vS3iBtVf4i_won5zAN9NGPqhcd6CcTb-4QHxpisSjCmlgV95B6mFmZvtMaC9GPvD7m8kD-6XLkVAhfc/pub?gid=911257845&output=csv&tq=select%20*%20where%20F%3E300

The line above works retrieves a file, but it returns the whole file, and doesn't filter.

Note that a published web sheet has the form

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/KEY/pub?gid=GID

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vS3iBtVf4i_won5zAN9NGPqhcd6CcTb-4QHxpisSjCmlgV95B6mFmZvtMaC9GPvD7m8kD-6XLkVAhfc/pub?gid=911257845

This works. Adding &output=csv to it (no space before the &) works, and it downloads as a csv file. This opens in excel and shows the data in the table.

I tried this:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vS3iBtVf4i_won5zAN9NGPqhcd6CcTb-4QHxpisSjCmlgV95B6mFmZvtMaC9GPvD7m8kD-6XLkVAhfc/pub?gid=911257845&output=csv&tq=select%20*%20where%20F%3E%20300

and

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vS3iBtVf4i_won5zAN9NGPqhcd6CcTb-4QHxpisSjCmlgV95B6mFmZvtMaC9GPvD7m8kD-6XLkVAhfc/gviz/tq?gid=911257845&output=csv&tq=select%20*%20where%20F%3E300

and get errors -- resource not available.

The page above should be public for people who want to try.

This may be an issue between publishing a sheet, and sharing a whole spread sheet to anyone who has the link.

I've created a new page that uses importrange() that slurps up the page from the main sheet, and that one is public.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-lqLuYJyHAKix-T8NR8wV8ZUUbVOJrZTysccid2-ycs/edit?usp=sharing

Answer 1

How about this modification?

Modification points :

• When it uses query, please use like https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/### file ID ###/gviz/tq?gid=###&tq=### query ###.
• When select%20*%20where%20%F%3E300 is decoded, it is select * where %F>300.
  • select * where F > 300 is select%20%2a%20where%20F%20%3e%20300.
• In order to output CSV, please use tqx=out:csv.
• Please share the Spreadsheet.
  • On Google Drive
    • On the Spreadsheet file
    • right-click -> Share -> Advanced -> Click "change" at "Private - Only you can access"
    • Check "On Anyone with the link"
    • Click "Save"
    • At "Link to share", copy URL.
      • Retrieve file ID from https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/### file ID ###/edit?usp=sharing

Modified curl command :

curl 'https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/### file ID ###/gviz/tq?gid=911257845&tq=select%20%2a%20where%20F%20%3e%20300&tqx=out:csv'

Reference :

• Query Language Reference

If I misunderstand your question, I'm sorry.

Edit :

The following 2 URLs are the comparison between your URL and my answer. The URL of my answer was matched to your URL.

1. Your URL

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vS3iBtVf4i_won5zAN9NGPqhcd6CcTb-4QHxpisSjCmlgV95B6mFmZvtMaC9GPvD7m8kD-6XLkVAhfc/gviz/tq?gid=911257845&output=csv&tq=select%20*%20where%20F%3E300

When above URL is separated,

1. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/
   • e/ is not required.
2. 2PACX-1vS3iBtVf4i_won5zAN9NGPqhcd6CcTb-4QHxpisSjCmlgV95B6mFmZvtMaC9GPvD7m8kD-6XLkVAhfc
   • This is not the file ID of spreadsheet.
3. /gviz/tq
4. gid=911257845
5. output=csv
6. tq=select%20*%20where%20F%3E300

2. In my answer matched to your URL

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/### file ID ###/gviz/tq?gid=###&tqx=out:csv&tq=### query ###

When above URL is separated,

1. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/
2. ### file ID ###
   • You can see the detail of the file ID of spreadsheet at here.
3. /gviz/tq
4. gid=###
   • You can use gid=911257845.
5. tqx=out:csv
   • This has to be used instead of output=csv.
6. tq=### query ###
   • You can use tq=select%20*%20where%20F%3E300.

Note :

• Each number corresponds.
• And please share the Spreadsheet as follows. This is difference from "Publish to the web" on Spreadsheet.
  • On Google Drive
    • On the Spreadsheet file
    • right-click -> Share -> Advanced -> Click "change" at "Private - Only you can access"
    • Check "On Anyone with the link"
    • Click "Save"
    • At "Link to share", copy URL.
      • Retrieve file ID from ``https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/###