Google Spreadsheet Synchronizer

Github Action to continuously export issues and pull requests data to a Google Spreadsheet

A project initiated by ViRGiL175 with contributions from Lityx.

Quick Start

Create a Github Action workflow as follow:

name: sync-issues-spreadsheet

on:
  workflow_dispatch:
  issues:
    types:
      [
        opened,
        deleted,
        transferred,
        closed,
        reopened,
        assigned,
        unassigned,
        labeled,
        unlabeled,
      ]

jobs:
  spreadsheet-sync:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: sync-issues-spreadsheet
    steps:
      - name: sync-issues-spreadsheet
        id: spreasheet-sync
        uses: noelmace/spreadsheet-sync@v3
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        with:
          google-api-service-account-credentials: ${{ secrets.GOOGLE_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_DATA }}
          document-id: "<YOUR SPREADSHEET ID>"
          sheet-name: "<NAME OF THE SHEET WHEN DATA WILL BE EXPORTED>"
          mode: "issues"

Don't forget to fulfill the requirements.

Options

key	description	mandatory
`google-api-service-account-credentials`	Google service account credentials (JSON)	yes
`document-id`	ID of your Google Spreadsheet	yes
`sheet-name`	name of the sheet to export to	yes
`mode`	sync mode to use	no (`all` by default)

Modes

Possible values for the mode option are:

all: export all issues and PRs
issues: export issues only (exclude pull requests)
milestone_issues: only export issues associated with an active milestone

Requirements (Step-by-step)

Google Credentials

Open Google IAM & Admin and Create a Google Cloud Project if you don't have one.

Select this project, create service account credentials, and save the associated JSON

Finally, you need to enable the API by visiting https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/library/sheets.googleapis.com to avoid an accessNotConfigured error. Make sure to select the right user and project before clicking on the "enable" button.

Encrypted Secret

Store these JSON Credentials in an Encrypted Secret for your Github repository (cf. the google-api-service-account-credentials option).

The GITHUB_TOKEN secret is set by default, so you don't need to define one. Owerver, you still need to pass it as an environement variable to the Github job using env as shown in the example worflow.

Spreadsheet

Create a new (or open an existing) spreadsheet document and note its ID (the part of the URL between /d/ and /edit). Use this ID for the document-id option.

Create a dedicated sheet for GitHub Issues data (cf. the sheet-name option).

Add the Google API Service Account email to your document with editor access.

dalcib/spreadsheet-sync