The spreadsheets api lets you do most of the things you asked here.Have a
look at the following link to start, and navigate there for more details:
http://code.google.com/apis/spreadsheets/faq.html#WhatIsTheGoogleSpreadsheetsDataAPI

VizGuy



On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 7:40 PM, ss0luu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> Hi TheViz,
>
> Thanks! Sorry if I may have come off as rude, but I felt like what I
> wanted to do could have been done through the visualization api. And
> okay, I can definitely work on the Spreadsheet GData API. Can you give
> me the link to that? If that is the same as spreadsheets.google.com, I
> haven't figured out how to update spreadsheets other than manually
> going into the spreadsheet and typing it into the cells. This is
> probably a question for the spreadsheet api people. And last question:
> is it possible to use functions from the spreadsheet api, like
> =GoogleFinance(symbol,attribute) inside the visualization api or any
> script? My assumption is no, but I figured if I don't ask I won't know
> and what I have tried I haven't been successful with.
>
> I very much appreciate your help, thanks a lot!
>
> Siam Luu
>
> On Nov 18, 5:31 am, TheViz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Siam,
> >
> > As of today you need to use the Spreadsheet GData API to update
> > spreadsheets. To view data in a spreadsheet you can choose to use the
> > Visualization (this) API or the GData API.  For most cases, it is easier
> to
> > use the Visualization API to view data.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 6:24 PM, ss0luu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > I understand. So, is there a way for writing a query to update data
> > > while being fetched? I assumed that this was the place to go because I
> > > would be using the visualization api to display the fetched data and
> > > assumed that it was something that needed to be coded in through this
> > > api as opposed to the spreadsheet api. I have posted a similar
> > > question in the spreadsheet api forum but have not received any
> > > response. Thanks for your help, I am still working on understanding
> > > this.
> >
> > > Cheers!
> > > Siam Luu
> >
> > > On Nov 15, 4:44 pm, VizGuy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > The spreadsheets API is doumented athttp://
> > > code.google.com/apis/spreadsheets/overview.htmland is not the one
> > > > this group is about.
> > > > This is the Google Visualization API, that has a lot to do with
> Google
> > > > Spreadsheet, but is not for update, but only for fetching data.
> >
> > > > VizGuy
> >
> > > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 9:33 PM, ss0luu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >
> > > > > HI Everybody,
> >
> > > > > So, I have been working on the Google Spreadsheets API for a bit
> but
> > > > > am still a big time newbie. I have a textbox on a page that needs
> to
> > > > > take whatever a user inputs into it and put it into a specific cell
> of
> > > > > my Google Spreadsheet. I'm not familiar with Queries and even after
> > > > > having read the queries document, I still do not know how to do
> this.
> >
> > > > > I would really appreciate any and all help that I can get with
> regard
> > > > > to writing queries. All I need is to take a user's input and put it
> > > > > into a cell on my spreadsheet. Thanks for the help and assistance!
> >
> > > > > Regards,
> > > > > Siam Luu- Hide quoted text -
> >
> > - Show quoted text -
> >
>

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