如何从JavaScript中的私人Google电子表格中读取数据-2014年11月？

Question

I would like to use a google spreadsheet as a simple read-only data source for a prototype. I want to make an ajax request of some kind for the data and then play with it within a web page. I see lots of conflicting blog posts, old documentation, etc, but nothing simple and definitive.

Ideally, I would be able to do this without making the sheet public, and without using any kind of auth within my page, just requiring that the user of my page be logged into an account with access to the sheet.

Can anyone point me to a simple tutorial or documentation that shows how to do this?

Answer 1

I wound up using tabletop.js . The tricky bit was setting permissions: I shared the document so anyone at my company could edit (view probably would work, too). I also selected File > Publish to web... and made sure that was enabled, but the "Require viewers to sign in with their [Company] account" checkbox was not checked.

I'm not actually sure what level of security I currently have; I suspect that it's less than I'd like.