So much advice. Thanks, all. 

- nick

On 22 May 2019, at 18:53, Geoffrey Teale <tealeg@gmail.com> wrote:

I wrote a whole library for Golang that reads/writes Microsoft ODX XLSX, if you don't need to go down that route, I'd avoid it.  Grabbing JSON from google seams like a way simpler way to process data. 
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tealeg

On Wed, 22 May 2019 at 16:46, William Lederer <william.lederer@gmail.com> wrote:
I wrote a hack to pull information from an excel xslx sheet. I used a couple of libraries pulled from quicklisp, first to unzip the file, then to xml-parse it. The specific trick is to decode the document from the word indexes for the shared strings.  So if you can save the google sheet as an excel, this technique would work.

wglb

On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 4:36 AM Nick Levine <nick@nicklevine.org> wrote:
Has anyone tried reading a google spreadsheet from lisp (Allegro)? Searching produced a couple of libraries for this, and neither of them compiled cleanly (which is not where I wanted to spend my morning).

- nick