How to Integrate Google Sheets in Webflow?

Google Sheets is a powerful tool that allows you to create, edit, and collaborate on spreadsheets online. Integrating Google Sheets into your Webflow project can be incredibly useful for displaying and updating data in real-time. In this tutorial, we will explore how to integrate Google Sheets in Webflow.

Step 1: Create a Google Sheets
Before we can integrate Google Sheets into Webflow, we need to create a spreadsheet in Google Sheets. Open your web browser and navigate to https://sheets.google.com. Sign in with your Google account or create a new one if you don’t have one already.

Once you’re signed in, click on the “+ New” button to create a new spreadsheet. Give your spreadsheet a name and add the necessary columns and data. For example, if you want to display a list of products on your website, you might create columns for “Product Name,” “Price,” and “Description.”

Step 2: Publish the Spreadsheet
To integrate the Google Sheets data into Webflow, we need to publish the spreadsheet. In Google Sheets, go to the “File” menu and select “Publish to the web.” A dialog box will appear.

In the dialog box, click on the “Publish” button. Make sure that the selected option is “Entire Document.” You can also choose whether you want to publish all sheets or just specific ones.

Click on the “Publish” button again. A link will be generated below the publish button. Copy this link as we will need it later.

Step 3: Set Up Webflow
Now that we have our Google Sheets published, let’s set up Webflow to fetch and display the data.

Open your Webflow project and go to the page where you want to display the data from Google Sheets. Add an embed element by clicking on the “+” button and selecting “Embed.”

In the embed element, click on the settings gear icon and select “Open Code Editor.”

In the code editor, we will write some custom HTML and JavaScript to fetch the data from Google Sheets.

Step 4: Fetch Data from Google Sheets
Inside the code editor, add a script tag to include the JavaScript library that will help us fetch the data. Paste the following code inside the script tag:

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
    $(document).ready(function() {
        var url = "PASTE_YOUR_PUBLISHED_SPREADSHEET_LINK_HERE";
        $.getJSON(url + "&callback=?", function(data) {
            // Code to handle data goes here
        });
    });
</script>

Replace “PASTE_YOUR_PUBLISHED_SPREADSHEET_LINK_HERE” with the link you copied in Step 2.

Step 5: Display the Data
Now that we have fetched the data from Google Sheets, let’s display it on our Webflow page.

Create a container element where you want to display the data. Inside this container, add an empty unordered list element (<ul>). This will be our placeholder for each item in the spreadsheet.

Inside the callback function of our $.getJSON request, we can loop through each row of data and create list items (<li>) with relevant information.

Here’s an example of how you can display product names:

<script src="https://ajax.getJSON(url + "&callback=?", function(data) {
            var products = data.feed.entry;
            var container = $("#product-list");
            
            products.forEach(function(product) {
                var productName = product.gsx$productname.$t;
                var listItem = "<li>" + productName + "</li>";
                container.append(listItem);
            });
        });
    });
</script>

In the above code, replace “PASTE_YOUR_PUBLISHED_SPREADSHEET_LINK_HERE” with the link you copied in Step 2. Also, make sure to add an element with the id “product-list” to your Webflow page where you want the product names to be displayed.

Step 6: Style the Data
To make the data from Google Sheets visually appealing, you can use CSS to style it according to your project’s design. You can Target the elements created in Step 5 using their respective IDs or classes and apply CSS properties such as font-size, color, padding, and margin.

For example:

#product-list {
    list-style-type: none;
}

#product-list li {
    margin-bottom: 10px;
    font-weight: bold;
}

In this example, we remove the default bullet points from the list and add some spacing between each item. We also make the product names bold.

Conclusion
Integrating Google Sheets in Webflow allows you to display and update data dynamically on your website. By following these steps and using HTML styling elements like <b>, <ul>, <li>, and JavaScript, you can seamlessly integrate Google Sheets into your Webflow project. Remember to publish your spreadsheet in Google Sheets and fetch the data using JavaScript to display it on your Webflow page.