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)" 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 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
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