In todayโs digital world, Google Sheets has become an essential tool for organizations and individuals alike. Its cloud-based nature allows teams to collaborate in real-time, manage data efficiently, and automate reporting. Integrating Google Sheets with your applications opens up a world of possibilities โ from reading and updating data programmatically to generating dynamic reports and performing analytics.
The Google Sheets API allows developers to access spreadsheet data directly from their code, enabling seamless automation without manual intervention. Whether you are building a project management tool, a reporting dashboard, or a data-driven application, connecting your application to Google Sheets ensures efficient, scalable, and secure data handling.
In this tutorial, we will walk through a step-by-step process to set up the Google Sheets API, create authorization credentials using OAuth 2.0, and demonstrate how to read data from a Google Sheet programmatically. By the end of this guide, you will have a complete framework to interact with Google Sheets from your Java application.
Click on - Create a New project
Select top drop-down OR Quick Start Project And select the project
Click on Enabled APIs and services
Select Google Sheets API and Enable it.
Click on OAuth Client ID
Click on - OAuth consent screen ( App name should be the same as the Project name else you will get an error)
Add Scope - Select './auth/spreadsheets' - this will give all the permission
And select './auth/drive'
Give any name(Google Sheet API) ---- Download OAuth client JSON file.
Sheet data can be accessed via the below link (Go to the 'spreadSheet.values'
section and select 'get' API)
https://developers.google.com/sheets/api/reference/rest
Note: click on Try this Method you will know about your access token
Range: Sheet-name (that will allow whole sheet access) OR A2:C2.
