Getting a Google Spreadsheet Cell's Image URL

Question

I have a Google Spreadsheet that has an image on the 2nd and 3rd column of each row, and I am trying to log all of the spreadsheet data to the console (for now). I\'m havin

Answer 1

Range.getValue() returns the computed value of a cell, which in this case is an image, not a URL. As you've found, you can use getFormula() to get the formula that created the image. You can use a regular expression to extract the image URL from the formula string.

function getImageUrl(formula) {
  var regex = /=image\("(.*)"/i;
  var matches = formula.match(regex);
  return matches ? matches[1] : null;
}

This won't work if the URL is computed from another cell or formula, but it should work for the simple case you have listed.