What's the easiest way to grab all specific JSON data from a Smartsheet JSON?

DougSmartsheetDev

I have a sheet that I have imported. I have a column that I'm trying to grab all the values from and add them to a list in Python what would be the easiest way to go about this from the development end?

Jeff Reisman

https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/comment/363938#Comment_363938

Are you putting the sheetId value in place of {sheetId} ?

When I run that as a GET in Postman, I get an array of each column ID with the name and type:

sharkasits

@DougSmartsheetDev I don't use Python for this, so I can't give you specifics on that, bur from the API side you'll use a GET at https://api.smartsheet.com/2.0/sheets/<<sheet id>> to pull the data.

If you don't know the column index you can look for the column title where the JSON element is

columns.<<column index>>.title

Once you know the column index, all the values for that column will be in the JSON element

rows.<<row id>>.cells.<<column index>>.value

Sorry I can't help with the specific Python, but I hope that helps.

Jeff Reisman

@DougSmartsheetDev

Start with the Smartsheet API 2.0 / SDK guide.

First, get your API Auth Bearer Token from the admin app.

Then you need to isolate your sheet id:

GET /sheets
https://api.smartsheet.com/2.0/sheets
response = smartsheet_client.Sheets.list_sheets(include_all=True)
sheets = response.data
Response sample:
{
 "pageNumber": 1,
 "pageSize": 50,
 "totalPages": 25,
 "totalCount": 136,
 "data": [
  {
   "id": 0,
   "accessLevel": "ADMIN",
   "createdAt": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
   "modifiedAt": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
   "name": "string",
   "permalink": "string",
   "version": 0,
   "source": {
    "id": 0,
    "type": "string"
   }
  }
 ]
}

Then you need to GET the list of columns and find the column Id you're looking for:

https://api.smartsheet.com/2.0/sheets/{sheetId}/columns
response = smartsheet_client.Sheets.get_columns(
 9283173393803140,    # sheet_id
 include_all=True)
columns = response.data
Sample Response:
{
 "pageNumber": 1,
 "pageSize": 50,
 "totalPages": 25,
 "totalCount": 136,
 "data": [
  {
   "id": 0,
   "index": 0,
   "symbol": "string",
   "title": "string",
   "type": "ABSTRACT_DATETIME",
   "validation": true
  }
 ]
}

Then you need to GET the row data from that column:

That's detailed here in the API/SDK guide: https://smartsheet.redoc.ly/tag/rows#operation/row-get

You could also use the Smartsheet Live Data Connector to query the sheet you want and use some other app to parse the column data to json.

DougSmartsheetDev

Really appreciate all the help. Super awesome of everybody.

Gratefully,

Doug

DougSmartsheetDev

Hello Jeff & Shark,

However, when I try to do,
 https://api.smartsheet.com/2.0/sheets/{sheetId}/columns

I get this:

{

    "errorCode": 1006,

    "message": "Not Found",

    "refId": "6liwku"

}

I can get the sheet but not the columns?

Jeff Reisman

https://community.smartsheet.com/discussion/comment/363938#Comment_363938

Are you putting the sheetId value in place of {sheetId} ?

When I run that as a GET in Postman, I get an array of each column ID with the name and type:

DougSmartsheetDev

Jeff,

Appreciate the response!

Yes I am putting the sheetId in place there. I'm able to access the sheet it's when I try to access anything further that I have trouble.

Thankfully,

Doug

Jeff Reisman

@DougSmartsheetDev

Do you have at least editor permissions on the sheet you're trying to pull from? I don't believe your API token can access anything that your account cannot.

Double check that the sheet ID is correct.

I'm assuming you're not using { } curly braces in the URL.

Before the sheet ID, "sheets" should be all lowercase, as should "columns" after the Sheet ID.

Any of the above being wrong will throw an error code 1006 "Not Found".

DougSmartsheetDev

Jeff,

• No curly Braces in URL
• sheets is lowercase, get call works for sheet, just stops at the /columns
• sheetId is correct
• Permission level is admin

indebtedly,

Doug

Edit: Embarrassed to say that I had my sheet ID & Linked Values Swapped. The answers provided above worked like a charm. My bad all and thank you.