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Read Covid19 live update API and collect data to Google Sheet
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var API_URL = 'https://api.covid19api.com/live/country/Sri-lanka'; | |
var SHEET_NAME = 'DataSheet'; | |
var HEADER_RANGE = "A1:F1"; | |
var HEADERS = ["ID", "Confirmed", "Deaths", "Recovered", "Active", "Date"] | |
var DATA_START_COL_ID = 1; | |
var FILEDATA_RANGE = "A2:A"; | |
/** | |
* This is a helper function to filter out empty values in an array. | |
*/ | |
function filterEmpty(value){ | |
return value[0] != ""; | |
} | |
function pullData() { | |
Logger.log("Sending GET request to : "+API_URL) | |
var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch(API_URL); | |
if(response.getResponseCode() == 200){ | |
if(response.length != 0){ | |
var jsonContent = JSON.parse(response.getContentText()); | |
// Iterate response and add all data IDs to a Array | |
var idList = [] | |
jsonContent.forEach(function(record){ | |
idList.push(record.ID); | |
}); | |
Logger.log(idList); | |
// Reading Worksheet by Name in variable SHEET_NAME | |
var sheetData = []; | |
var spreadSheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet(); | |
var dataSheet = spreadSheet.getSheetByName(SHEET_NAME); | |
if(dataSheet == null){ | |
// Creating Worksheet If Not Exists | |
dataSheet = spreadSheet.insertSheet(SHEET_NAME); | |
dataSheet.getRange(HEADER_RANGE).setValues([HEADERS]); | |
}else{ | |
// Reading existing data from the WorkSheet If Exists. | |
var sheetData = dataSheet.getRange(FILEDATA_RANGE).getValues(); | |
sheetData = sheetData.filter(filterEmpty); | |
} | |
// Filter existing IDs in the sheet if existing. | |
if(sheetData.length != 0){ | |
var ignoreIDList = []; | |
sheetData.forEach(function(row){ | |
ignoreIDList.push(row[0]); | |
}); | |
idList = idList.filter(function(id){ | |
return ignoreIDList.indexOf(id) < 0; | |
}); | |
} | |
var processedData = []; | |
jsonContent.forEach(function(record){ | |
if(idList.indexOf(record.ID) >= 0){ | |
processedData.push([record.ID,record.Confirmed, record.Deaths, record.Recovered, record.Active, record.Date]); | |
} | |
}); | |
Logger.log(processedData); | |
if(processedData.length != 0){ | |
dataSheet.getRange( | |
sheetData.length+2, | |
DATA_START_COL_ID, | |
processedData.length, | |
processedData[0].length | |
).setValues(processedData); | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
} |
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