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How to query other Sheets, files, and JSON
How to query other Sheets, files, and JSON

This guide shows how to query other Google Sheets, files (e.g. Excel or CSV), and JSON API's from your current Sheet

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Written by Tejas Sachdeva
Updated over a week ago

Querying another Google Sheet

If you are querying another Google Sheet, share the Sheet you want to query so SeekWell can find it (You don't need to share the Sheet you are querying from).

Click the "Files / API" button and select the file type (use CSV for other Google Sheets), name the table (i.e. what you want to call the table in your SQL query) and the URL to the file. For other Google Sheets, simply copy and paste the URL you see in your browser. Note that the URL is different for spreadsheets with multiple Sheets.

Click "Done" and the code to pull your table will be inserted into the query editor. If you wanted to SELECT  everything from the other sheet, the code would look something like this (you need to add your SQL statement:

SELECT *
FROM example
;
++={
  "files" : {
    "example" :
      {"url" : "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/CHANGE-THIS-TO-YOUR-URL!!!!!/edit#gid=0",
      "type" : "csv",
      "columns" : "",
      "values" : ""}}}

You can add multiple files and JOIN them as you would with any database tables

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