So I'm trying to experiment with accessing my google spreadsheet using JS, and I'm a beginner, and probably way in over my head, but I need help So I have this script
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Google Sheets API Quickstart</title>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
</head>
<body>
<p>Google Sheets API Quickstart</p>
<!--Add buttons to initiate auth sequence and sign out-->
<button id="authorize_button" style="display: none;">Authorize</button>
<button id="signout_button" style="display: none;">Sign Out</button>
<pre id="content" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"></pre>
<script type="text/javascript">
// Client ID and API key from the Developer Console
var CLIENT_ID = 'CLIENT_ID';
var API_KEY = 'API_KEY';
// Array of API discovery doc URLs for APIs used by the quickstart
var DISCOVERY_DOCS = ["https://sheets.googleapis.com/$discovery/rest?version=v4"];
// Authorization scopes required by the API; multiple scopes can be
// included, separated by spaces.
var SCOPES = "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/spreadsheets.readonly";
var authorizeButton = document.getElementById('authorize_button');
var signoutButton = document.getElementById('signout_button');
/**
* On load, called to load the auth2 library and API client library.
*/
function handleClientLoad() {
gapi.load('client:auth2', initClient);
}
/**
* Initializes the API client library and sets up sign-in state
* listeners.
*/
function initClient() {
gapi.client.init({
apiKey: API_KEY,
clientId: CLIENT_ID,
discoveryDocs: DISCOVERY_DOCS,
scope: SCOPES
}).then(function () {
// Listen for sign-in state changes.
gapi.auth2.getAuthInstance().isSignedIn.listen(updateSigninStatus);
// Handle the initial sign-in state.
updateSigninStatus(gapi.auth2.getAuthInstance().isSignedIn.get());
authorizeButton.onclick = handleAuthClick;
signoutButton.onclick = handleSignoutClick;
}, function(error) {
appendPre(JSON.stringify(error, null, 2));
});
}
/**
* Called when the signed in status changes, to update the UI
* appropriately. After a sign-in, the API is called.
*/
function updateSigninStatus(isSignedIn) {
if (isSignedIn) {
authorizeButton.style.display = 'none';
signoutButton.style.display = 'block';
listMajors();
} else {
authorizeButton.style.display = 'block';
signoutButton.style.display = 'none';
}
}
/**
* Sign in the user upon button click.
*/
function handleAuthClick(event) {
gapi.auth2.getAuthInstance().signIn();
}
/**
* Sign out the user upon button click.
*/
function handleSignoutClick(event) {
gapi.auth2.getAuthInstance().signOut();
}
/**
* Append a pre element to the body containing the given message
* as its text node. Used to display the results of the API call.
*
* @param {string} message Text to be placed in pre element.
*/
function appendPre(message) {
var pre = document.getElementById('content');
var textContent = document.createTextNode(message + '\n');
pre.appendChild(textContent);
}
/**
* Print the names and majors of students in a sample spreadsheet:
* https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BxiMVs0XRA5nFMdKvBdBZjgmUUqptlbs74OgvE2upms/edit
*/
function listMajors() {
gapi.client.sheets.spreadsheets.values.get({
spreadsheetId: 'ID',
range: 'Class Data!A1:A1',
}).then(function(response) {
var range = response.result;
console.log(range);
if (range.values.length > 0) {
appendPre('Name, Major:');
for (i = 0; i < range.values.length; i++) {
var row = range.values[i];
// Print columns A and E, which correspond to indices 0 and 4.
appendPre(row[0] + ', ' + row[4]);
}
} else {
appendPre('No data found.');
}
}, function(response) {
appendPre('Error: ' + response.result.error.message);
});
}
listMajors()
</script>
<script async defer src="https://apis.google.com/js/api.js"
onload="this.onload=function(){};handleClientLoad()"
onreadystatechange="if (this.readyState === 'complete') this.onload()">
</script>
</body>
</html>
Basically what I'm trying to do here is to access my spreadsheet and print the first column of the first row as a range of (A1 to A1), and my function listMajors() is supposed to do it, but I'm struck with this error
"<a class='gotoLine' href='#144:9'>144:9</a> Uncaught ReferenceError: gapi is not defined"
gapineeds to be loaded and you need to be authenticated, before your code can work. So the earliest place in your code, where you could calllistMajors()would be inhandleAuthClick():Don't forget to remove the two(!) existing calls to
listMajors()from your code.