Thanks Jeff - not quite what I'm looking for - but that gives me some ideas. I'll follow up on the Google Spreadsheets API group.
Murray On Jul 21, 12:58 pm, "Jeff S (Google)" <j...@google.com> wrote: > Hi Murray, > > I think the discussion group for the Google Docs and Google Spreadsheets > APIs would be a better place for this question. > > http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Docs-Data-APIs > > What you describe sounds a bit like web hooks, you want to updates to a > spreadsheet to trigger notifications to other end points on the web. > > I don't think that the Spreadsheets API has this yet (it would be good to > ask just to make sure). If not yet supported, you could implement something > like this on App Engine using a design similar to that in > PubSubHubbubhttp://code.google.com/p/pubsubhubbub/. The app engine hub could > be > responsible for polling the Spreadsheets API for changes and pushing > notifications to other endpoints (cron for polling, urlfetch for pushing > notifications downstream). > > Thank you, > > Jeff > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Murray Spork <murray.sp...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > Not sure if this is the right group to ask this - sorry in advance if > > not (and maybe you can point me to the right group to ask). > > > I want to push data from a Google Spreadsheet to some external web app > > - something like what the Coda folks show in this blog: > > >http://blog.coda2go.com/2008/05/30/google-apps-integration-brings-spr... > > > I can of course have my external app poll the spreadsheet atom feed - > > but I want it to be triggered from the spreadsheet. > > > Is this possible? If so what is the easiest way to do this? > > > I've seen google scripts - I imagine it will support this - but of > > course I do not have access to that. > > > I've thought of other possibilities - but they all seem a bit hacky: > > > * Embedded Gadget that is just a "publish" button > > * use something like Greasemonkey to inject custom javascript logic > > > Maybe an iGoogle widget would help? > > > Any ideas/ pointers would be appreciated. > > > Cheers, > > Murray --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
