I'm doing multiple queries (find amount of open/closed issues, use the open/closed issues (per person) to create a leaderboard of developer issue closes, etc - find how many issues were closed this week and how many opened last week - what's the newest issue, what's the oldest issue) to GitHub's API and trying to get the resultant data written onto a Google Sheet. I'm using Google Apps Script Editor to do this.
I can get the JSON data from GitHub API to the console no problem, but I'm not sure how to then parse and write it to Google Sheets. How could I do this, please?
An example of a JSON data (this time it was "open issues" grabbed from http://github.com/vizorvr/patches/ )
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Then implement them.","score":1.0},{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/vizorvr/patches/issues/2034","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/vizorvr/patches","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/vizorvr/patches/issues/2034/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/vizorvr/patches/issues/2034/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/vizorvr/patches/issues/2034/events","html_url":"https://github.com/vizorvr/patches/issues/2034","id":245952930,"number":2034,"title":"Inspect the Radial Point Geometry -plugin and figure out what it does or should do","user":{"login":"esaruoho","id":4966687,"avatar_url":"https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/4966687?v=4","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/esaruoho","html_url":"https://github.com/esaruoho","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/esaruoho/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/esaruoho/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/esaruoho/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/esaruoho/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/esaruoho/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/esaruoho/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/esaruoho/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/esaruoho/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/esaruoho/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"assignees":[],"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2017-07-27T07:41:07Z","updated_at":"2017-07-27T07:41:07Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Go into Patches and add the Radial Point Geometry -patch.\r\n\r\nStudy what it does. Figure if it does anything. If it does something, come up with an example explaining how it should be used - then help with the popup documentation.\r\n\r\n\r\n","score":1.0},{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/vizorvr/patches/issues/2023","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/vizorvr/patches","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/vizorvr/patches/issues/2023/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/vizorvr/patches/issues/2023/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/vizorvr/patches/issues/2023/events","html_url":"https://github.com/vizorvr/patches/issues/2023","id":241289959,"number":2023,"title":"Shortcut: Shift-Tab: improve by opening \"Inspector->Properties\"","user":{"login":"esaruoho","id":4966687,"avatar_url":"https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/4966687?v=4","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/esaruoho","html_url":"https://github.com/esaruoho","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/esaruoho/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/esaruoho/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/esaruoho/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/esaruoho/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/esaruoho/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/esaruoho/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/esaruoho/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/esaruoho/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/esaruoho/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"id":165125694,"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/vizorvr/patches/labels/enhancement","name":"enhancement","color":"84b6eb","default":true},{"id":346495796,"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/vizorvr/patches/labels/user","name":"user","color":"fbca04","default":false},{"id":270777736,"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/vizorvr/patches/labels/UX","name":"UX","color":"5319e7","default":false}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":{"login":"gmarinov","id":14101296,"avatar_url":"https://avatars0.githubusercontent.com/u/14101296?v=4","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/gmarinov","html_url":"https://github.com/gmarinov","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gmarinov/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gmarinov/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gmarinov/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gmarinov/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gmarinov/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gmarinov/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gmarinov/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gmarinov/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gmarinov/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"assignees":[{"login":"gmarinov","id":14101296,"avatar_url":"https://avatars0.githubusercontent.com/u/14101296?v=4","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/gmarinov","html_url":"https://github.com/gmarinov","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gmarinov/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gmarinov/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gmarinov/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gmarinov/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gmarinov/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gmarinov/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gmarinov/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gmarinov/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gmarinov/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false}],"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2017-07-07T14:57:29Z","updated_at":"2017-07-07T15:44:19Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Improve Shift-Tab so that it opens the Inspector ( press I ) AND selects Properties-tab instead of Node.\r\n\r\n","score":1.0},{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/vizorvr/patches/issues/2022","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/vizorvr/patches","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/vizorvr/patches/issues/2022/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/vizorvr/patches/issues/2022/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/vizorvr/patches/issues/2022/events","html_url":"https://github.com/vizorvr/patches/issues/2022","id":24086639
I have, thus far, grabbed something called pullJSON to try and pull the data, which looks like this - however, unfortunately it seems destructive - it does not write to a specific sheet, just any old active sheet. I'm not sure how to modify it to write it to a specific sheet so that it'll work, so that's why I'm asking about how to parse stuff.
function pullJSON() {
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var sheets = ss.getSheets();
var sheet = ss.getActiveSheet();
var url="https://api.github.com/search/issues?q=repo:vizorvr/patches+state:closed"; // Paste your JSON URL here
var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url); // get feed
var dataAll = JSON.parse(response.getContentText()); //
var dataSet = dataAll;
var rows = [],
data;
for (i = 0; i < dataSet.length; i++) {
data = dataSet[i];
rows.push([data.id, data.name,data.email]); //your JSON entities here
}
dataRange = sheet.getRange(1, 1, rows.length, 3); // 3 Denotes total number of entites
dataRange.setValues(rows);
}
Edit 2
Was able to get the number of open issues in the repo, and the number of closed issues in the repo, but to dump them to a specific cell is still very vague for me.
var openPatches = "https://api.github.com/search/issues?q=repo:vizorvr/patches+state:open"
var closedPatches = "https://api.github.com/search/issues?q=repo:vizorvr/patches+state:closed"
var openResponse = UrlFetchApp.fetch(openPatches, {'muteHttpExceptions': true});
var Data = JSON.parse(openResponse.getContentText());
Logger.log("Open issues on Patches GitHub:")
Logger.log(Data.total_count)
var closedresponse = UrlFetchApp.fetch(closedPatches, {'muteHttpExceptions': true});
var data = JSON.parse(closedresponse.getContentText());
Logger.log("Closed issues on Patches GitHub:")
Logger.log(data.total_count)
Logger.log(Object.keys(data))
Could I in theory just write Data.total_count and data.total_count to different cells on a sheet, without having to have a google sheet open in another tab on the browser?
