How To Download / Export Sheets In Spreadheet Via Google Apps Script

Question

The task is to automate the manual process accomplished by the menu option \"File | Download As | Plain Text\"

I want to be able to control the saved file name, whic

Answer 1

I have exported a spreadsheet as CSV directly into a local hard drive as follows:

1. Get the CSV content from current sheet using a variation of function convertRangeToCsvFile_() from the tutorial on this page https://developers.google.com/apps-script/articles/docslist_tutorial#section3

   var csvFile = convertRangeToCsvFile_(...);
   

2. Then select a drive folder that is syncing to a local computer using Drive

   var localFolder = DocsList.getFolderById("055G...GM");
   

3. And finally save the CSV file into the "local" folder

   localFolder.createFile("sample.csv", csvFile);
   

That's it.

Answer 2

In case you are looking to export all of the sheets in s spreadsheet to csv without having to manually do it one by one, here's another thread about it:

Using the google drive API to download a spreadsheet in csv format

Answer 3

The download can be done. But not the "Write to the hard drive" of the computer.

Write issue: You mean write a file to the hard drive of the computer, using Google Apps Script? Sorry, but you will need more than GAS to do this. For security reasons, I doubt this is possible with only GAS, have never seen anything like this in GAS.

Google Drive API will let you do a download, just needs OAuth and the URL you gave.

Answer 4

This app script returns a file for download instead of web page to display:

function doGet(){
    var outputDocument = DocumentApp.create('My custom csv file name'); 
    var content = getCsv();
    var textContent = ContentService.createTextOutput(content);
    textContent.setMimeType(ContentService.MimeType.CSV);
    textContent.downloadAsFile("4NocniMaraton.csv");
    return textContent;
}