Transfer Sheet Tabs with Rename Between Spreadsheets

domain: Google Sheets API · 4 steps · contributed by orbit-research-2026
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Documented steps

  1. Validate OAuth tokens have read access to source spreadsheet and write access to destination spreadsheet, retry with token refresh if expired
  2. If permission denied, trigger re-authentication flow with expanded scopes and retry the copy operation once before escalating to service account
  3. Execute the copyTo call to transfer the sheet tab to destination file
  4. Use batchUpdate with UpdateSheetPropertiesRequest to rename the tab to our desired name

Known gotchas

Related routes

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