Google api excel vba

The Google Sheets V4 API is a very nice piece of work that exposes almost all of the Sheets object model in a REST API. Here’s a VBA wrapper for that API. I’ll add to it over time, but this version allows you to do this – in just a few lines of VBA.

Examples

Let’s get straight down to some examples. For the purposes of demo, I’ve made a sample workbook – sheetsAPI.xlsm – which you can get from the downloads page, under the data manipulation folder.

It has two buttons – one to get this sheet from google, and another to send it there.

Here’s the code behind the buttons.

Public Sub getThisSheet()
    Dim result As cjobject
    
    Set result = getStuffFromSheets(getMySheetId(), ActiveSheet.NAME)
    If (Not result.child("success").value) Then
        MsgBox ("failed on sheets API " + result.child("response"))
        Exit Sub
    End If
    writeToSheets result.child("data").children(1).child("valueRanges"), True
End Sub

Public Sub putThisSheet()
    Dim result As cjobject
    Set result = putStuffToSheets(getMySheetId(), ActiveSheet.NAME)
    If (Not result.child("success").value) Then
        MsgBox ("failed on sheets API " + result.child("response"))
        Exit Sub
    End If
End Sub

Private Function getMySheetId() As String'// make this into your own sheet id
    getMySheetId = "1V54F5b1e1bOcJXJ_McRkpyJ5Dx_ndGnjdiZpBeyA4L0"
End Function

People usually find OAUTH2 a little scary. I’ve tried to simplify it as much as possible. Here’s what you need to do.

Private Function sheetsOnceOff()
    
    getGoogled "sheets", , _
    "109xxxxxxxxxxieuu2q3.apps.googleusercontent.com", _
    "CVgxxxxxxxxxePfe"
    
End Function

Behind the scene, the OAUTH2 process is fairly complex, and may not work on various combinations of Older IE and Windows. Some enterprises also lock down Windows so you can’t POST from Excel, or you can’t write to the registry, and various other combinations. getGoogled will only work if it can write to the registry, get to the internals of the IE DOM structure, and POST http requests to the google domain.

When getGoogled has completed successfully, you’ll find a registry entry for any scopes you’ve used. Note that you can have multiple entries if you have done some of the other integrations on this site that also use OAUTH2. The example above will create an entry for ‘scope_sheets’ that look like this under the xLiberation key. If you cannot get this to happen for some reason of lockdown or version combination, then you won’t be able to get any further until that’s solved. Look at the Gitter community for others who have found various ways to get round lock down problems in their environment.

The console

Enable this API

Create a new oauth2 client ID

Run the one off function, and you’ll get something like this

Private Function getHttpObject(Optional timeout As Long = 0) As Object
    '// some installation dont have server object installed, so fall back
    Dim ob As Object
    On Error GoTo missing
    Set ob = CreateObject("Msxml2.ServerXMLHTTP.6.0")
    ob.setOption 2, ob.getOption(2) - SXH_SERVER_CERT_IGNORE_CERT_DATE_INVALID
    ' can have change of timeout for complex/long queries
    If timeout <> 0 Then
        ob.setTimeouts 0, 30 * 1000, 30 * 1000, timeout * 1000
    End If
    Set getHttpObject = ob
    Exit Function
    
missing:
    On Error GoTo screwed
    Set ob = CreateObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP.6.0")
    Debug.Print "falling back to client xmlhttp - server is not installed on this machine"
    Set getHttpObject = ob
    Exit Function

screwed:
    MsgBox ("cant find either server or client xmlhttp - there missing files from your windows installtion")
    Exit Function

End Function

Google Drive API Using Excel VBA

With Minimal Background in Both Google Drive API v3 and Excel 2016 VBA

How can a program in Excel 2016 VBA interact with files in Google Drive using its API? In an attempt to answer this question, this article walks an absolute beginner from zero background to efficient user of both Google Drive API and Excel 2016 VBA. The complexity of the information presented herein will increase drastically as you leave the first half behind.

What’s in This Article?

• A | What’s an API?
• B | Authentication vs Authorization
• C | What is OAuth?
• D | Owner of Personal Data Resource
• E | Real-time Editing
• F | Client-Server Model
• G | OAuth 2.0 for Client-side Web Applications
• H | The Implicit Grant Flow
• K | Using Google OAuth Playground
• M | A Simple .NET Console Application
• N | Google API Client Libraries
• P | Calling .NET Methods from Excel VBA

A | What’s an API?

The graphical user interface (GUI) is a form of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and audio indicator such as primary notation, instead of text-based user interfaces, typed command labels or text navigation. | Tell me more

Application programming interface (API) a set of functions and procedures allowing the creation of applications that access the features or data of an operating system, application, or other service. | Tell me more

Google Drive is a file storage and synchronization service developed by Google. Launched on April 24, 2012, Google Drive allows users to store files on their servers, synchronize files across devices, and share files. | Tell me more

To use Google Drive using a browser, go to https://drive.google.com/ using your Gmail account. While there, you can use its GUI to upload your files from your computer to your Google Drive. Using its GUI, you can also give your friends access to your folder and its files in your Google Drive.

When an Excel 2016 VBA program needs to do the same and, on behalf of its users, interact with their Google Drive, it has to use the drive’s API instead of its GUI. In simple words, GUI is for human users and API is for machine users.

Access to a system is protected by authentication and authorization, and they are frequently used in conjunction with each other. Authentication is the process of verifying the user’s identity. After the user’s identity is authenticated, authorization kicks in. Security questions, for example, can add an extra layer of certainty to your authentication process. Security questions are an alternative way of identifying your customers when they have forgotten their password, entered the wrong credentials too many times, or tried to log in from an unfamiliar device or location.

Authorization is the process of verifying the user’s rights allowing appropriate access to the protected resources, be they data, functionality, or both. In some cases, there is no authorization; any user may be use a resource or access a file simply by asking for it. Most of the web pages on the Internet require no authentication or authorization.

Encryption involves the process of transforming data so that it is unreadable by anyone who does not have a decryption key. Encryption is used to protect, for example, a person’s credit card and personal information when it is sent over the Internet to the airline. The company encrypts the customer’s data so that it will be safer from interception in transit. Airports need to authenticate that the person is who he or she says she is and has purchased a ticket, before giving him or her a boarding pass. A flight attendant must authorize a person so that person can then see the inside of the plane and use the resources the plane has to fly from one place to the next. | Tell me more

C | What is OAuth?

Pronounced as oh-auth, OAuth (Open Authorization) is an open standard for access delegation, commonly used as a way for Internet users to grant websites or applications access to their information on other websites but without giving them the passwords. Generally, OAuth provides to clients a “secure delegated access” to server resources on behalf of a resource owner. It specifies a process for resource owners to authorize third-party access to their server resources without sharing their credentials. | Tell me more

OAuth is an authorization protocol, rather than an authentication protocol. It is an open standard protocol for authorization of an application for using user information. Using OAuth on its own as an authentication method may be referred to as pseudo-authentication. The communication flow is explained on this page here.

D | Owner of Personal Data Resource

When you create a Gmail account, you become an owner of your personal data resource. The data resource is information created by, used by or gathered by the data owner in order to conduct day to day business. Data resources are usually stored in databases under a database management system.

Attached to your Gmail account is a limited amount of your personal data resource. To store even more personal data, use Google Drive. In order to use Google Drive, you will need a Google account. Creating a Google account will automatically create a Gmail email. Once you’ve set up your Google account, you can access Google Drive by going to http://drive.google.com in your web browser. As you begin to upload and create files you’ll need to know how to view, manage, and organize them in the interface.

Using your Gmail address, you’re the owner of the personal data resource found inside your Google Drive.

E | Real-time Editing

While using the GUI of Google Drive, you can create a new document using Google Docs format.

You can edit a document in Google Docs format by using the GUI of Google Docs, which is the Google Document Editor (GDE).

You can authorize several other Google account holders to have read/write access to your Google document.

All authorized users can edit the same Google document at the same time. This is referred to as real-time editing.

In this case, Google Docs is the client application while Google Drive is the server application.

F | Client-Server Model

Client–server model is a distributed application structure that partitions tasks or workloads between the providers of a resource or service, called servers, and service requesters, called clients. Often clients and servers communicate over a computer network on separate hardware, but both client and server may reside in the same system. A server host runs one or more server programs, which share their resources with clients. A client does not share any of its resources, but it requests content or service from a server. Clients therefore initiate communication sessions with servers, which await incoming requests. Examples of computer applications that use the client–server model are Email, network printing, and the World Wide Web. | Tell me more

In few words, the Internet primarily uses a client-server model. The web browser is the client. The web server is the server. That a web server is hosted elsewhere (in the cloud) does not change the fact that the relationship between the web browser and the web server is a client-server relationship.

G | OAuth 2.0 for Client-side Web Applications

OAuth 2.0 allows users to share specific data with an application while keeping their usernames, passwords, and other information private. For example, an application can use OAuth 2.0 to obtain permission from users to store files in their Google Drives. | Tell me more

This OAuth 2.0 flow is called the implicit grant flow; see section G, below, or see this web sequence diagram here. It is designed for applications that access APIs only while the user is present at the application. These applications are not able to store confidential information.

In this flow, your app opens a Google URL that uses query parameters to identify your app and the type of API access that the app requires. You can open the URL in the current browser window or a popup. The user can authenticate with Google and grant the requested permissions. Google then redirects the user back to your app. The redirect includes an access token, which your app verifies and then uses to make API requests. |Tell me more

H | The Implicit Grant Flow

K | Using Google OAuth Playground

For a demo, do the following:

1. Using the test email, chuckday402@gmail.com, open the Google Drive at https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/my-drive
2. Delete all untitled documents in Chuck’s drive.
3. Select the gear button to then select the commands Settings, then Manage apps.
4. Scroll around to find “ OAuth 2.0 Playground”; if found, click on the Options button then select “Disconnect from Drive” and disconnect.
5. In a new Browser tab, go to the playground at https://developers.google.com/oauthplayground/
6. Press on the X button near the top to reset or clear the playground.
7. In the first step selecting and authorizing API, scroll down and look for the node “Drive API v3”.
8. Expand the node then select the item “https://googleapis.com/auth/drive.file”.
9. Press the button [Authorize APIs]

You will be brought to a URL similar to the following:

To continue, do the following:

1. Do as instructed and sign in with Google; Choose an account to continue to Google OAuth 2.0 Playground. Remember to use chuckday402@gmail.com
2. Press the button [Allow] to allow Playground to access your Google test account chuckday402@gmail.com.
3. Carry out Playground Step 2 and press the button “ Exchange authorization code for tokens”
4. Do the following steps to carry out Playground Step 3.
5. Press the button “List possible operations”.
6. Select the item “Create documents”.
7. Press the button “Send the request”.

Switch to the tab “My Drive — Google Drive” then refresh to see a new document was created in Chuck’s drive.

M | A Simple .NET Console Application

This article here provides a complete sequence of the steps to create a simple .NET console application that makes requests to the Drive API. | Tell me more

• Client-ID for Chuck: 1050525399669–7sq71d4eglrfc0dgi1s997u5abj2dbur.apps.googleusercontent.com
• Client Secret: ZkSiuTEJIpbxX2EV4ADAMI3c

N | Google API Client Libraries

Most Google services have web APIs that .NET developers can use to give their applications access to this information with the user’s authorization. | Tell me more

To get started with the .NET client library, find the API you want to use and click the desired version number as found on this page here.

P | Calling .NET Methods from Excel VBA

This page here shows how to call .NET methods from Excel VBA.

X | Pending Information

The following information is necessary for completion of this article.

All applications follow a basic pattern when accessing a Google API using OAuth 2.0. At a high level, you follow four basic steps as spelled out on this page here.

Every request your application sends to the Drive API must include an authorization token. The token also identifies your application to Google. | Tell me more

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Отправка данных из *.XLSX в Google Sheets

Всем привет! Я обычный пользователь MS Excel и Google Docs, любитель-программист на VBA, App Script и JavaScript.

Задача

В данной статье хочу показать как можно быстро и легко отправить объемные данные из файла *.XLSX в Google Sheets при помощи VBA и App Script сохранив тем самым формат отправляемых данных(границы, заливки и прочее).

Цель статьи — поделиться доступным инструментом по отправки данных в Google Sheets из XLSX в автоматическом режиме, при помощи VBA и App Script.

Все инструменты реализованы стандартными средствами VBA, App Script без использования дополнительных библиотек.

Подготовительный этап, в наличии имеем:

Microsoft Excel

Почтавая служба Outlook

Почта Gmail

Практическая часть:

Алгоритм работы автоматической отправки данных с XLSX в Google Sheets заключается в следующем, при помощи VBA отправляем данные через почтовую службу Outlook на свою почту Gmail с определенной меткой, после чего App Script извлекает данные в Google Sheets документ.

В редактроре VBA создадим функцию и процедуру по отправки письма с вложением:

Далее, необходимо в редакторе App Script вашей Google таблицы создать две фукции.Первая, будет проверять входящие письма с «Вашей меткой». Вторая, по созданию новой книги в Google Drive с полученными данными Эксель, которая скопирует в ваш Google sheet и удалить более ненужную книгу с Google Drive.

Функция для извлечения файла Excel

Настраиваем триггер как вам удобно: раз в минуты, каждый час и т.д.

Создаем в Gmail папку с меткой(Label) по которой App Script будет анализировать.На этом этапе завершается механизм получение и обработки данных.

Далее, можно запустить процедуру на VBA «Sub sendMail()» для проверки работоспособнисти механизма и использовать по своего целевому назначению.

Заключение

Реализуемый функционал взаимодействия Эксель с Google Sheets, по отправки и получения данных удобен и практичен как в его реализации так и в обработки значительных объемных данных.

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Google Places Details to Excel with VBA

I’m trying to get a full detail list of Google places to an Excel sheet by using a Text Search request to Google.

So I want to perform an API query (?) by

writing a search string to an Excel cell

getting the VBA to query Google «Place Search» and returning a temporary list of Placeid’s matching the search string

getting the VBA to query all the details of the previous step’s Placeid’s with Google «Place Details» and writing them to the sheet

So the code should «chain» these two APIs to my understanding. I have an API key already for Google.

2 Answers 2

Ok, so some initial work see (BigTest() and EvenBiggerTest()) see remains from prior edit but after re-reading your comments I can see you wanted TextSearch. See please run TestTestSearch()

I have made it multipage aware in that Google returns 20 rows at a time plus a next page token if there is some more; so one supply the next page token to get the next page. This is not working reliably and I do not know why, for London restaurants never more than 60.

Feel free to step through the code, I have made plenty of interim variable which you can observe in the Locals Window to see the JSON structure.

There is some nice VBA.CallbyName logic which few people know about regarding interrogating a JSON structure (I found it on Korean website). Itching to post it on Stackoverflow.

You’ll need to add the following project references, they import libraries

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