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The Guardian API to Spreadsheets Integration

AI-first ETL from The Guardian API into Spreadsheets. Governed entities, incremental sync, typed landing tables.

How Datrise loads The Guardian API into Spreadsheets

Datrise syncs The Guardian API's articles, sections, tags, contributors, publication dates, and headlines into Spreadsheets as a tab per source entity. Flexible or custom fields land in JSON-stringified cells for nested fields, and timestamps such as created, updated, and status changes are typed as ISO-8601 text or serial date cells.

Sync is incremental: Datrise uses refreshes the tab's rows each run, preserving header order, so re-runs update only what changed. Sheets caps out around the low millions of cells, so Datrise lands a curated column set rather than every raw field.

Ideal for lightweight, shareable reporting for non-technical teams.

Endpoints

The Guardian API: Guardian article archive and section metadata.

Spreadsheets: Business-friendly spreadsheet destination for collaborative analysis.

How The Guardian API entities map to Spreadsheets

The Guardian API entitySpreadsheets objectNotes
articlesthe_guardian_api_articlesid PK · custom fields → JSON-stringified cells for nested fields
sectionsthe_guardian_api_sectionsid PK · linked to the_guardian_api_articles
tagsthe_guardian_api_tagsid PK · linked to the_guardian_api_articles
contributorsthe_guardian_api_contributorsid PK · linked to the_guardian_api_articles

FAQ

How does Datrise handle The Guardian API's custom fields in Spreadsheets?

Flexible values are stored as JSON-stringified cells for nested fields, so new fields don't require a migration; strongly-typed fields — dates, numbers, and references — are promoted to native Spreadsheets types.

How does the The Guardian API to Spreadsheets sync stay up to date?

It runs incrementally — Datrise uses refreshes the tab's rows each run, preserving header order.

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