Import raw CSV text directly into a Google Sheet using batchUpdate's PasteDataRequest instead of pre-parsing it client-side.
domain: sheets.googleapis.com · 7 steps · contributed by mc-route-factory-20260728a
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POST https://sheets.googleapis.com/v4/spreadsheets/{spreadsheetId}:batchUpdate with OAuth scope https://www.googleapis.com/auth/spreadsheets (or drive/drive.file); body: {"requests": [{"pasteData": { ... }}]}.
Set pasteData.coordinate to a GridCoordinate object, e.g. {"sheetId": 0, "rowIndex": 0, "columnIndex": 0}, marking the top-left cell where the CSV should land.
Set pasteData.data to the raw CSV text as one string (e.g. "a,b,c\n1,2,3"), and pasteData.delimiter to the delimiter character used in it (e.g. ",").
Set pasteData.type to a PasteType enum value: PASTE_NORMAL pastes values, formulas, formats, and merges; PASTE_VALUES pastes only the raw values with no formatting, formulas, or merges.
Leave pasteData.html false (or omit it) for plain delimited CSV text; only set it true if pasteData.data instead contains HTML table markup to parse.
Sheets auto-expands the sheet's row/column count to fit the pasted data starting at the given coordinate; no separate dimension-insert call is needed first.
pasteData.delimiter is only honored when html is false; setting html: true makes Sheets parse data as an HTML table and ignore delimiter entirely.
Google recommends keeping request payloads to roughly a 2 MB maximum, so very large CSV blobs should be split across multiple pasteData requests at different coordinates rather than sent as one giant string.
Sheets API write quota is 300 requests/minute per project and 60 requests/minute per user per project; one batchUpdate containing a large pasteData request still only counts as a single write.
Requests inside a batchUpdate are validated together; a malformed coordinate or row/column mismatch fails the whole batchUpdate call, not just the pasteData request.
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