Some tsv files are not accepted in the tool about docsql

[odino]

Hey @yamanmalkoc, I used to have this problem when the file was not shared publicly, or the link wasn't pointing to the tsv export format. Do you have a public link I can use to have a look at the file?

[yamanmalkoc]

Thanks for the reply, yes, turns out it is because the file is not shared publicly. Tho I can't make these sheets available to the public. Is there a way to give credentials and authorize the tool to download from a private spreadsheet?

Although it doesn't look like there is an option in the tool which you can give account credentials to access a private spreadsheet.

Do you think that can be added as a feature? I can make a pull request work on such an additional feature if you think that would be valuable. Or I might just do that just for myself if you prefer to keep the code as simple as it is now.

[odino]

Unfortunately, you won't be able to use private sheets as of now.

The implementation is fairly trivial but also requires the user to actually login through their google account, making it harder for an automated tool to complete such workflow:

https://developers.google.com/sheets/api/quickstart/go

I've worked in a few companies where most "configuration" data is exposed via Google sheets -- nothing "too" sensitive in there. Of course, if you have a list of employees with salaries it might be a bad idea, but for data that's not sensitive I think making the sheet public is an acceptable trade-off (the link is randomized enough that it would be hard to just guess the URL).

Let me know if I can help with anything else 🙂

[odino]

BTW there might be a chance to access the sheet without the web authorization from the user: https://stackoverflow.com/a/50562013

If you're interested and have some time to write a prototype, I'd be happy to integrate the code back to docsql (just don't have the time to test this method now).

https://developers.google.com/sheets/api/guides/authorizing#APIKey