# Read an online spreadsheet

Acquire / file

A variant of [Read a spreadsheet](https://meridian.online/operations/read-a-spreadsheet).

Read a sheet or range from a spreadsheet held in a cloud service through its API.

Page: <https://meridian.online/operations/read-a-spreadsheet/read-an-online-spreadsheet>

## Status

Not built yet.

arcform does not do this yet. [Its place on the roadmap](https://meridian.online/roadmap#read-a-spreadsheet)

## What other tools call it

Meridian's classification; an independent blind rating agreed on 95.7% of 324 rows (variant, version 3).

- Alteryx Designer: [`Google Sheets Input`](https://help.alteryx.com/current/en/designer/tools/connectors/google-sheets-input-tool.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- EasyMorph: [`Import Google Sheets`](https://help.easymorph.com/doku.php?id=transformations:importgooglesheets) (read 2026-09-27)
- Apache Hop: [`Google Sheets input`](https://hop.apache.org/manual/latest/pipeline/transforms/google-sheets-input.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- KNIME Analytics Platform: [`Google Sheets Connector`](https://api.hub.knime.com/nodes/*R_Hu91aCOa8RFibu?details=full) (read 2026-09-27)
- KNIME Analytics Platform: [`Google Sheets Reader`](https://api.hub.knime.com/nodes/*poHAFve1qUYVbcyD?details=full) (read 2026-09-27)
- OpenRefine: [`Google data`](https://openrefine.org/docs/manual/starting#google-data) (read 2026-09-27)
- RapidMiner Studio: [`Read Google Sheets`](https://docs.rapidminer.com/latest/studio/operators/data_access/cloud_storage/google_sheets/google_sheets_reader.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- VisiData: [`gsheets (loader)`](https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/blob/7609212ec2febafa9caba7183cbebfaf49627909/visidata/experimental/gsheets.py#L8) (read 2026-09-23)