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Returns an array with all data from the spreadsheet.
Optional attributes
- Name
sheet- Type
- string
- Description
The sheet (tab) you want to select.
- Name
limit- Type
- integer
- Description
Limit the number of rows returned.
- Name
offset- Type
- integer
- Description
Which result to start with (how many results to skip).
- Name
sort_by- Type
- string
- Description
The name of the column by which you want to sort the results.
- Name
sort_order- Type
- string
- Description
Sort order. You can choose:
asc- sort in ascending orderdesc- sort in descending orderrandom- get data in random order
- Name
sort_method- Type
- string
- Description
If you want to sort by date, set this attribute to
date, SheetDB will try to automatically detect the data format but it is recommended to specify the format in thesort_date_formatattribute.
- Name
sort_date_format- Type
- string
- Description
Date format, e.g. if your date is 2022-19-12 use
Y-m-d. For date time like 2022-19-12 13:55:00 useY-m-d H:i:s.
Applies only when sort_method=date.
- Name
cast_numbers- Type
- string
- Description
If you want to cast a value into a number, use its column name here. You can use multiple column names separated by commas.
Example: https://sheetdb.io/api/v1/58f61be4dda40?cast_numbers=id,age
- Name
single_object- Type
- boolean
- Description
If you want to get only one row as an object (not in an array), set this attribute to
true.
- Name
mode- Type
- string
- Description
Value Render Option, more info here.
Request
# Sort results by id in descending order, take two
# and return the age as an integer.
curl -G https://sheetdb.io/api/v1/58f61be4dda40 \
-d sort_by=id \
-d sort_order=desc \
-d limit=2 \
-d cast_numbers=age
JSON Response
[
{
"id": "5",
"name": "James",
"age": 19,
"comment": ""
},
{
"id": "4",
"name": "Steve",
"age": 22,
"comment": "special"
}
]
Keys
Returns an array with all column names. It's all the cells from the first row.
Request
# Sort results by id in descending order, take two
# and return the age as an integer.
curl -G https://sheetdb.io/api/v1/58f61be4dda40/keys
JSON Response
[
"id",
"name",
"age",
"comment"
]
Document name
Returns the name of the document.
JSON Response
{
"name": "SheetDB test document"
}
Count
Returns the number of rows in the document (without first row).
JSON Response
{
"rows": 5
}