Add information to a spreadsheet from the Google API - node.js

Question

I have a Typescript and Node project in which I am trying to insert the information I get from the database into the spreadsheet using the Google API V4
https://sheets.googleapis.com/v4/spreadsheets/{spreadsheetId}:batchUpdate
This is the JSON object that I get from the database:
let sheetData = [
{
"country":null,
"age":25,
"fileName":"testName1"
},
{
"country":"Spain",
"age":null,
"fileName":"testName2"
}
]
I transform it with papaparse:
const papa = require("papaparse")
let result = papa.unparse(sheetData, {
header: false,
delimiter: ';',
encoding: 'UTF-8',
})
console.log(result)
This is what I get:
;25;testName1
Spain;;testName2
This is the xml that I use from the API to add the information:
{
"requests": [
{
"pasteData": {
"coordinate": {
"sheetId": 123,
"rowIndex": 2,
"columnIndex": 1
},
"delimiter": ";",
"type": "PASTE_VALUES",
"data": ";25;testName1Spain;;testName2"
}
}
]
}
I attach a screenshot with the result of the sheet:
My problem: All the information is put in the same row, how do I have to modify the array to include line breaks and be identified by the API?
This is the JSON that works from the API by adding \n:
{
"requests": [
{
"pasteData": {
"coordinate": {
"sheetId": 123,
"rowIndex": 2,
"columnIndex": 1
},
"delimiter": ";",
"type": "PASTE_VALUES",
"data": ";25;testName1\nSpain;;testName2"
}
}
]
}
This is the result I want to achieve, but I don't know how to treat the JSON with the information I get:

Answer 1

I thought that in your script, how about the following sample script?
Sample script:
const sheets = google.sheets({ version: "v4", auth }); // Please use your authorization script.
let sheetData = [
{
country: null,
age: 25,
fileName: "testName1",
},
{
country: "Spain",
age: null,
fileName: "testName2",
},
];
let result = papa.unparse(sheetData, {
header: false,
delimiter: ";",
encoding: "UTF-8",
});
console.log(result);
const requests = {
requests: [
{
pasteData: {
coordinate: {
sheetId: 123, // Please set your sheet ID.
rowIndex: 2,
columnIndex: 1,
},
delimiter: ";",
type: "PASTE_VALUES",
data: result,
},
},
],
};
sheets.spreadsheets.batchUpdate(
{
spreadsheetId: "###", // Please set your Spreadsheet ID.
resource: requests,
},
(err, result) => {
if (err) {
console.log(err);
return;
}
console.log(result.data);
}
);
In this modification, your value of result is used as the data of pasteData request.
When I tested this script, I confirmed that your expected result can be obtained.