Installation

If you use our API via HTTP requests, you do not need to install anything. However, if you want, you can use one of our ready-made solutions:

Example spreadsheet

To make it convenient for you to explore this documentation, you can use our test API. As mentioned earlier in the first row there should be column names, for this API they are id, name, age and comment.

Here is a link to the Google spreadsheet: SheetDB test document
Our test API ID is 58f61be4dda40 and the endpoint URL is: https://sheetdb.io/api/v1/58f61be4dda40

SheetDB test spreadsheet document

Making your first API request

Now you are ready to make your first call to the SheetDB API. Below you can see how to send a GET request to our test API.

GET
/api/v1/{API_ID}
curl https://sheetdb.io/api/v1/58f61be4dda40

JSON Response

[
    {
        "id": "1",
        "name": "Tom",
        "age": "15",
        "comment": ""
    },
    {
        "id": "2",
        "name": "Alex",
        "age": "24",
        "comment": ""
    },
    {
        "id": "3",
        "name": "John",
        "age": "51",
        "comment": ""
    },
    {
        "id": "4",
        "name": "Steve",
        "age": "22",
        "comment": "special"
    },
    {
        "id": "5",
        "name": "James",
        "age": "19",
        "comment": ""
    }
]

What's next?

Great, you're now set up with an API and have made your first request. Here are a few links that might be handy as you venture further into the SheetDB API: