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Split multiple JSON string into strucutred table using Google App Script

Time:03-17

I am trying to split a data set with an ID and JSON string into a structured table.

The difficult part is I need it to be dynamic, the JSON string varies often and I want headings to be determined by the unique values in the input column at that time. I need the script to be able to create headings if the string changes without needed to recode the script.

We have about 150 different JSON strings we are hoping to use this script on, without recoding it for each one. Each string has lots of data points.

I have a script working but it splits them one by one, need to build something that will do bulk in one go, by looping through all outputs in B and creating a column for each unique field in all the strings, then populating them.

The script works if I paste the additional info straight in, however I am having trouble reading from the sheet


  var inputsheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActive().getSheetByName("Input");
  var outputsheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActive().getSheetByName("Current Output");

  var additionalinfo = inputsheet.getRange(1,1).getValue()
  Logger.log(additionalinfo)

  var rows = [],
      data;

    for (i = 0; i < additionalinfo.length; i  ) {
        for (j in additionalinfo[i]) {   

          dataq = additionalinfo[i][j];

          Logger.log(dataq);

          rows.push([j, dataq]);
    }
      dataRange = outputsheet.getRange(1, 1, rows.length, 2);
      dataRange.setValues(rows);    
  }
}

Here is a link to the sample data. Note that in Sample 1 & 2 there are different headings, we need the script to identify this and create headings for both

output

Update:

  • Modified script for no-additionalInfo key objects.
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