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nine_k
Nope, it sends stdout to sheets. Getting input from sheets would be cool, too.
Naac
It looks to me like you're being downvoted, but what you're saying looks correct to me. $PROGRAM sends to stdout what google sheets reads from "stdin"
reificator
When you run this utility, it forwards stdin to Google Sheets.

Should you pipeline stdout from somewhere else to this utility, the contents of that stdout will be forwarded to Google Sheets.

It is correct to say either that you are forwarding stdin or that you are forwarding stdout. It is therefore not correct to say that it does not forward stdin, because the source code explicitly refers to stdin. That's likely the reason for the [Fight Club]s the GP is receiving.

jwilk
From the HN guidelines:

Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

PowerfulWizard
Consider the command:

    tosheets --spreadsheet=ABC <myfile.txt
In this example, stdin is what goes to the spreadsheet. stdout is (I assume) nothing.
notaboutdave
This is pretty great. It looks like it automatically writes to the next logical empty cell.

  curl https://www.bitstamp.net/api/v2/ticker/btcusd \
  | grep 'last": *"\d*\.\d*' -o | grep '\d*\.\d*' -o \
  | tosheets -c A1 --spreadsheet=foo
^ That will append the last BTC price to column A of sheet 'foo'
sillysaurus3
Can I nerd out over how unreasonably effective regexps are?

That's basically a mini JSON parser in 48 characters.

gcr
With a domain-specific tool, it's even easier though.

    curl ... | jq -r .last
sillysaurus3
Sure. But you can't use jq to scrape arbitrary websites, for example. :)
nurettin
For cases where a website is not a tutorial for websites, regex is a suitable tool for scraping.
dpflan
Jeff Atwood has an entertaining post about parsing HTML with regular expressions:

https://blog.codinghorror.com/parsing-html-the-cthulhu-way/

“”” That's right, if you attempt to parse HTML with regular expressions, you're succumbing to the temptations of the dark god Cthulhu's … er … code. “””

ams6110
Parsing and scraping are different things though. You don't need to parse a web page to extract specific things from it.
heptathorp
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dang
Please don't do this here.
thesandlord
I wrote something similar that will send stdin to Google Stackdriver Logging.

https://github.com/thesandlord/logpipe

troydavis
In the same vein, pipe anything to `logger` to send it to the local syslogd (and if configured, to remote destinations).

For example, this uses datamash (https://www.gnu.org/software/datamash/) to sum column 2 of a CSV ("-t,"), then log the output:

    datamash -t, sum 2 < stuff.csv | logger
thesandlord
Yeah logger or fluentd are definitely better long term solutions. I wanted something that was no frills and minimal config for ad-hoc situations. Other's on my team found it useful so I open sourced it.

Bonus: In depth code review for this package: https://youtu.be/c5ufcpTGIJM

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tardo99
They mean stdout, right?
forkerenok
Depends on from where you look :)

It is stdout for the previous process in the pipeline and stdin for the tosheets itself.

EDIT: Tosheets -> tosheets

jwilk
tosheets just reads stuff from stdin. It doesn't care if it's attached to a pipe or not. It might be that there's no "previous process" at all.
O_H_E
Interestingly Nice

Your project ruins my English

fiatjaf
Amazing.

We need more utilities like this that help integrate apps and web services between themselves and the Unix environment.

"Pipes to the web" should be like this. Not bloted a UI with forms that perform premade actions with your web apps data.