A Google Apps Script for importing CSV data into a Google Spreadsheet.

csv_import_magic.js

// vim: ft=javascript:
/*jslint sloppy: true, vars: true, white: true, nomen: true, browser: true  */
/*global SpreadsheetApp, UiApp, UrlFetchApp, Utilities */
/*
 * A script to automate requesting data from an external url that outputs CSV data.
 *
 * Adapted from the Google Analytics Report Automation (magic) script.
 * @author nickski15@gmail.com (Nick Mihailovski)
 * @author ianmlewis@gmail.com (Ian Lewis)
*/

var CSV_CONFIG = 'csvconfig';

/* =========== Logging ======================= */

/**
 * The output text that should be displayed in the log.
 * @private.
 */
var logArray_;

/**
 * Clears the in app log.
 * @private.
 */
function setupLog_() {
  logArray_ = [];
}

/**
 * Returns the log as a string.
 * @returns {string} The log.
 */
function getLog_() {
  return logArray_.join('\n'); 
}

/**
 * Appends a string as a new line to the log.
 * @param {String} value The value to add to the log.
 */
function log_(value) {
  logArray_.push(value);
  
  var app = UiApp.getActiveApplication();
  var foo = app.getElementById('log');
  foo.setText(getLog_());
}

/**
 * Displays the log in memory to the user.
 */
function displayLog_() {
  var uiLog = UiApp.createApplication().setTitle('Report Status').setWidth(400).setHeight(500);
  var panel = uiLog.createVerticalPanel();
  uiLog.add(panel);

  var txtOutput = uiLog.createTextArea().setId('log').setWidth('400').setHeight('500').setValue(getLog_());
  panel.add(txtOutput);
  
  SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().show(uiLog); 
}

function getOrCreateSheet_(sheet_name) {
  var activeSpreadsheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
  var sheet = activeSpreadsheet.getSheetByName(sheet_name);
  if (!sheet) {
    sheet = activeSpreadsheet.insertSheet(sheet_name, 0);
  }
  return sheet;
}

/**
 * Create a Menu when the script loads. Adds a new csvconfig sheet if
 * one doesn't exist.
 */
function onOpen() {
  var activeSpreadsheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
  
  // Add a menu.
  activeSpreadsheet.addMenu(
    "CSV Report", [
      {name: "Get Data", functionName: "getCSVData"},
      {name: "Create Report", functionName: "createCSVReport"}
    ]
  );
  
  getOrCreateSheet_(CSV_CONFIG);
}

/**
 * Returns the trailing number on a string. For example the
 * input: xxxx555 will return 555. Inputs with no trailing numbers
 * return undefined. Trailing whitespace is not ignored.
 * @param {string} input The input to parse.
 * @resturns {number} The trailing number on the input as a string.
 *     undefined if no number was found.
 */
function getTrailingNumber_(input) {
  // Match at one or more digits at the end of the string.
  var pattern = /(\d+)$/;
  var result = pattern.exec(input);
  if (result) {
    // Return the matched number.
    return result[0];
  }
  
  return undefined;
}

/**
 * Returns the values from 2 columns from the csvconfig sheet starting at
 * colIndex, as key-value pairs. Key-values are only returned if they do
 * not contain the empty string or have a boolean value of false.
 * If the key is start-date or end-date and the value is an instance of
 * the date object, the value will be converted to a string in yyyy-MM-dd.
 * If the key is start-index or max-results and the type of the value is
 * number, the value will be parsed into a string.
 * @param {number} colIndex The column index to return values from.
 * @return {object} The values starting in colIndex and the following column
       as key-value pairs.
 */
function getConfigsStartingAtCol_(sheet, colIndex) {
  var config = {}, rowIndex, key, value;
  var range = sheet.getRange(1, colIndex, sheet.getLastRow(), 2);
  
  // The first cell of the first column becomes the name of the query.
  config.query = range.getCell(1,1).getValue();
  
  for (rowIndex = 2; rowIndex <= range.getLastRow(); ++rowIndex) {
    key = range.getCell(rowIndex, 1).getValue();
    value = range.getCell(rowIndex, 2).getValue();
    if (value) {
      config[key] = value;
    }
  }

  return config;
}

/**
 * Returns an array of config objects. This reads the csvconfig sheet
 * and tries to extract adjacent column names that end with the same
 * number. For example Names1 : Values1. Then both columns are used
 * to define key-value pairs for the coniguration object. The first
 * column defines the keys, and the adjacent column values define
 * each keys values.
 * @param {Sheet} The csvconfig sheet from which to read configurations.
 * @returns {Array} An array of API query configuration object.
 */
function getConfigs_(sheet) {

    var configs = [], colIndex;
    // There must be at least 2 columns.
    if (sheet.getLastColumn() < 2) {
        return configs;
    }

    var headerRange = sheet.getRange(1, 1, 1, sheet.getLastColumn());
    var firstColValue, firstColNum, secondColValue, secondColNum;

    // Test the name of each column to see if it has an adjacent column that ends
    // in the same number. ie xxxx555 : yyyy555.
    // Since we check 2 columns at a time, we don't need to check the last column,
    // as there is no second column to also check. 
    for (colIndex = 1; colIndex <= headerRange.getNumColumns() - 1; ++colIndex) {
        firstColValue = headerRange.getCell(1, colIndex).getValue();
        firstColNum = getTrailingNumber_(firstColValue);
        
        secondColValue = headerRange.getCell(1, colIndex + 1).getValue();
        secondColNum = getTrailingNumber_(secondColValue);
      
        if (firstColNum && secondColNum && firstColNum === secondColNum) {
            configs.push(getConfigsStartingAtCol_(sheet, colIndex)); 
        }
    }
  
    return configs;  
}

// This will parse a delimited string into an array of
// arrays. The default delimiter is the comma, but this
// can be overriden in the second argument.
function parseCsvResponse_( strData, strDelimiter ){
    // Check to see if the delimiter is defined. If not,
    // then default to comma.
    strDelimiter = (strDelimiter || ",");
    strData = strData.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, '');

    // Create a regular expression to parse the CSV values.
    var objPattern = new RegExp(
        (
            // Delimiters.
            "(\\" + strDelimiter + "|\\r?\\n|\\r|^)" +

            // Quoted fields.
            "(?:\"([^\"]*(?:\"\"[^\"]*)*)\"|" +

            // Standard fields.
            "([^\"\\" + strDelimiter + "\\r\\n]*))"
        ),
        "gi"
        );


    // Create an array to hold our data. Give the array
    // a default empty first row.
    var arrData = [[]];

    // Create an array to hold our individual pattern
    // matching groups.
    var arrMatches = null;


    // Keep looping over the regular expression matches
    // until we can no longer find a match.
    while (arrMatches = objPattern.exec( strData )){

        // Get the delimiter that was found.
        var strMatchedDelimiter = arrMatches[ 1 ], strMatchedValue;

        // Check to see if the given delimiter has a length
        // (is not the start of string) and if it matches
        // field delimiter. If id does not, then we know
        // that this delimiter is a row delimiter.
        if (
            strMatchedDelimiter.length &&
            (strMatchedDelimiter !== strDelimiter)
            ){

            // Since we have reached a new row of data,
            // add an empty row to our data array.
            arrData.push( [] );

        }

        // Now that we have our delimiter out of the way,
        // let's check to see which kind of value we
        // captured (quoted or unquoted).
        if (arrMatches[ 2 ]){

            // We found a quoted value. When we capture
            // this value, unescape any double quotes.
            strMatchedValue = arrMatches[ 2 ].replace(
                new RegExp( "\"\"", "g" ),
                "\""
                );

        } else {

            // We found a non-quoted value.
            strMatchedValue = arrMatches[ 3 ];

        }

        // Now that we have our value string, let's add
        // it to the data array.
        arrData[ arrData.length - 1 ].push( strMatchedValue );
    }

    // Return the parsed data.
    return arrData;
}



function populateSheetWithCSV_(sheet, csvUrl, user, pw) {

  // request the CSV!
  var headers = {};
  if (user && pw) {
    headers = {
      // use basic auth
      'Authorization': 'Basic ' + Utilities.base64Encode(
        user + ':' + pw, Utilities.Charset.UTF_8)
    };
  }
  var resp = UrlFetchApp.fetch(csvUrl, {
    headers: headers,
    validateHttpsCertificates: false // No valid certificate yet :(
  });

  // parse the response as a CSV
  var csvContent = parseCsvResponse_(resp.getContentText());

  // clear everything in the sheet
  sheet.clearContents().clearFormats();

  // set the values in the sheet (as efficiently as we know how)
  sheet.getRange(
    1, 1,
    csvContent.length, /* rows */
    csvContent[0].length /* columns */).setValues(csvContent);

}



/*
Gets the CSV data for each report and loads it into the appropriate sheet.
*/
function getCSVData(e) {
    setupLog_();
    var now = new Date(), i, config, configName, sheet;
    log_('Running on: ' + now);
  
    var configs = getConfigs_(getOrCreateSheet_(CSV_CONFIG));
  
    if (!configs.length) {
        log_('No report configurations found');
    } else {
        log_('Found ' + configs.length + ' report configurations.');
      
      for (i = 0; config = configs[i]; ++i) {
          configName = config.query;
          if (config['sheet-name']) {
              if (config.url) {
                  try {
                      log_('Getting CSV: ' + configName);
                      sheet = getOrCreateSheet_(config['sheet-name']);
                      populateSheetWithCSV_(sheet, config.url, config['http-username'], config['http-password']);
                  } catch (error) { 
                      log_('Error executing ' + configName + ': ' + error.message);
                  }
              } else {
                  log_('No URL found: ' + configName); 
              }
          } else {
              log_('No sheet-name found: ' + configName);
          }
      }
      
      
    }
    log_('Script done');
    
    // Update the user about the status of the queries.
    if( e === undefined ) {
      displayLog_();
    } 
}

/**
 * Returns 1 greater than the largest trailing number in the header row.
 * @param {Object} sheet The sheet in which to find the last number.
 * @returns {Number} The next largest trailing number.
 */
function getLastNumber_(sheet) {
  var maxNumber = 0;
  
  var lastColIndex = sheet.getLastColumn();

  if (lastColIndex > 0) {
    var range = sheet.getRange(1, 1, 1, lastColIndex);

    for (var colIndex = 1; colIndex < sheet.getLastColumn(); ++colIndex) {
      var value = range.getCell(1, colIndex).getValue();
      var headerNumber = getTrailingNumber_(value);
      if (headerNumber) {
        var number = parseInt(headerNumber, 10);
        maxNumber = number > maxNumber ? number : maxNumber;                                  
      }
    }
  }
  return maxNumber + 1;
}

/**
 * Adds a CSV Report configuration to the spreadsheet.
 */
function createCSVReport() {
  var sheet = getOrCreateSheet_(CSV_CONFIG);
  var headerNumber = getLastNumber_(sheet);
  var config = [
    ["query" + headerNumber, "value" + headerNumber],
    ['url', ''],
    ['http-username', ''],
    ['http-password', ''],
    ['sheet-name', '']];
  
  sheet.getRange(1, sheet.getLastColumn() + 1, config.length, 2).setValues(config);
}

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Can you provide a license on your file?
Can you share how you viewed the script behind "Google Analytics Report Automation (magic) script"? Presumably this is the same script as this add-on: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-analytics/fefimfimnhjjkomigakinmjileehfopp

Hi, Ian,

I am really in need of your script, but I am unable to make it run it seems. Whenever I use the menu you create on the google sheets interface, I get a Report Status with the following:

Running on: Fri Dec 16 2016 13:40:01 GMT+0100 (CET)
No report configurations found
Script done

And nothing happens afterwards. What am I doing wrong? THis is the first time I am using GOogle Scripts, so forgive my ignorance and thank you for any help!!!

Hi,
Thank you for this script. It's great!
I would like to keep the cell styling (bold, background color, etc.), and only update the value when I click on "Get Data". Is there a simple line of code to change, or does it seem more complicated?
Thanks!

hello, thankps for the scypt. But i need to import only certain column (column 1, 5, 20). What i have t do?