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stpe / grunt-gss-to-json

grunt-gss-to-json

Grunt task that read a Google Spreadsheet and save as JSON.

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2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
2GitHub stars
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What it is

Grunt task that read a Google Spreadsheet and save as JSON.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2017-02-18 15:47:00 UTC to 2017-11-03 02:54:17 UTC.

012017-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsFeb 20172017-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJun 20172017-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsNov 2017

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Feb 20172017-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-03-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Mar 20172017-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20172017-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20172017-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20172017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20172017-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20172017-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20172017-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20172017-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20172017-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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In Connecting to Google Sheets with Python
In a project I worked on the implementation of a very complex form (insurance company) with lots of conditions. Given the number of stakeholders and people involved having a say (legal, product owner, sales people, customer care, copywriter, etc) normal iteration (gathering feedback => implement => deploy => repeat) would simply take too long. I very successfully used Google Spreadheets as a backend for this. Putting all text and the conditional logic in the spreadsheet, and allowing the form to be built as a web page based on the Google Spreadsheet data for instant preview. This allowed the different members in the project to even work in parallel (thanks to collaboration features) with stakeholders - and implementing the feedback immediately themselves DURING the meeting - to see if the results was what they expected. I wrote a small bl
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og post about this, unfortunately in Swedish, but hey - there's a video at least :) http://www.rebelandbird.com/hyperiterativ-prototypning-med-g... Another powerful way I use personally is to use Google Spreadsheet as a data backend for Jekyll based static websites. Here is a Grunt plugin I did to deal with this https://github.com/stpe/grunt-gss-to-json - example usage; my retro games collection http://games.stpe.se/
In Google Spreadsheets and Python

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