Tosheets, utility to send stdin to Google sheets

https://github.com/kren1/tosheets

by kren1 • 9 years ago

161 28 9 years ago

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michaelangerman• 9 years ago

very cool

nine_k• 9 years ago

Nope, it sends stdout to sheets. Getting input from sheets would be cool, too.

Naac• 9 years ago

It looks to me like you're being downvoted, but what you're saying looks correct to me. $PROGRAM sends to stdout what google sheets reads from "stdin"

reificator• 9 years ago

When you run this utility, it forwards stdin to Google Sheets.

Should you pipeline stdout from somewhere else to this utility, the contents of that stdout will be forwarded to Google Sheets.

It is correct to say either that you are forwarding stdin or that you are forwarding stdout. It is therefore not correct to say that it does not forward stdin, because the source code explicitly refers to stdin. That's likely the reason for the [Fight Club]s the GP is receiving.

jwilk2• 9 years ago

From the HN guidelines:

Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

PowerfulWizard• 9 years ago

Consider the command:

    tosheets --spreadsheet=ABC <myfile.txt

In this example, stdin is what goes to the spreadsheet. stdout is (I assume) nothing.

fluffyllemon• 9 years ago

tosheets definitely reads from stdin: https://github.com/kren1/tosheets/blob/8a853d2ebb722c474f5bb... :)

notaboutdave• 9 years ago

This is pretty great. It looks like it automatically writes to the next logical empty cell.

  curl https://www.bitstamp.net/api/v2/ticker/btcusd \
  | grep 'last": *"\d*\.\d*' -o | grep '\d*\.\d*' -o \
  | tosheets -c A1 --spreadsheet=foo

^ That will append the last BTC price to column A of sheet 'foo'

sillysaurus32• 9 years ago

Can I nerd out over how unreasonably effective regexps are?

That's basically a mini JSON parser in 48 characters.

gcr• 9 years ago

With a domain-specific tool, it's even easier though.

    curl ... | jq -r .last

heptathorp• 9 years ago

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thesandlord2• 9 years ago

I wrote something similar that will send stdin to Google Stackdriver Logging.

https://github.com/thesandlord/logpipe

troydavis• 9 years ago

In the same vein, pipe anything to `logger` to send it to the local syslogd (and if configured, to remote destinations).

For example, this uses datamash (https://www.gnu.org/software/datamash/) to sum column 2 of a CSV ("-t,"), then log the output:

    datamash -t, sum 2 < stuff.csv | logger

thesandlord2• 9 years ago

Yeah logger or fluentd are definitely better long term solutions. I wanted something that was no frills and minimal config for ad-hoc situations. Other's on my team found it useful so I open sourced it.

Bonus: In depth code review for this package: https://youtu.be/c5ufcpTGIJM

tardo99• 9 years ago

They mean stdout, right?

forkerenok• 9 years ago

Depends on from where you look :)

It is stdout for the previous process in the pipeline and stdin for the tosheets itself.

EDIT: Tosheets -> tosheets

jwilk2• 9 years ago

tosheets just reads stuff from stdin. It doesn't care if it's attached to a pipe or not. It might be that there's no "previous process" at all.

thomastjeffery• 9 years ago

No.

From "tosheets"'s stdin to sheets.

O_H_E• 9 years ago

Interestingly Nice

Your project ruins my English

fiatjaf• 9 years ago

Amazing.

We need more utilities like this that help integrate apps and web services between themselves and the Unix environment.

"Pipes to the web" should be like this. Not bloted a UI with forms that perform premade actions with your web apps data.

Tosheets, utility to send stdin to Google sheets

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