The Google visualization API is a read only API that also supports reading a
data table from a Google spreadsheet. The API does not
support spreadsheet comments (as you mentioned this is very specific to
spreadsheets).
Try looking at the Google spreadsheet data API.

http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/docs/client-libraries.html

HTH
ChartMAn

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 5:25 AM, Mike A <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks for the response.  If you create a Spreadsheet and right-click
> on a cell, you can add a comment (just like in excel).  What I am
> asking for is if there is a way to retrieve these comments (on a per
> cell basis) using this API.  Obviously the DataTable object does not
> allow me to do this, but is there some one way?  The properties of the
> cell does not contain the comment.
>
> I understand that the DataTable is meant to be a generic object, so I
> might be looking in the wrong place.  What I wanted was a gadget that
> can read cell comments as I have a spreadsheet that relies heavily on
> them.
>
>
> On Jan 19, 11:37 am, Viz Kid <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi Mike.
> >
> > What do you mean by "comments"?
> > Each cell in a datatable has potentially a value, formatted value and
> > properties which the user can set all three of them.
> >
> > Best,
> >   Viz Kid
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Mike A <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > All,
> >
> > > I have searched all over the place but can't find an answer to my
> > > question.  The API does not appear to have functionality to retrieve,
> > > update, or even clear comments from a specific cell.  I can get the
> > > value and properties from a specific cell in a DataTable object (given
> > > the row and column of the cell) just fine, but apparently comments
> > > might have been overlooked.
> >
> > > Does anyone know if this functionality exists and I am just missing
> > > it?  If it doesn't exist how would I go about requesting to add it?
> > > Because comments are per cell, I don't see why it would be difficult
> > > to add methods such as getComment(int row, int column).
> >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Mike A
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