Add, rename, or delete a sheet (tab) within an existing Google Spreadsheet via a single batchUpdate call.
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": [ ... ]}.
Add a tab with an AddSheetRequest: {"addSheet": {"properties": {"title": "New Tab"}}}. sheetId is optional and randomly generated if unset; read the assigned sheetId back from replies[].addSheet.properties.
Rename a tab with an UpdateSheetPropertiesRequest: {"updateSheetProperties": {"properties": {"sheetId": 123, "title": "Renamed"}, "fields": "title"}}. The fields FieldMask is required; list only the changed sub-fields (or "*" for all).
Delete a tab with a DeleteSheetRequest: {"deleteSheet": {"sheetId": 123}}. This uses the numeric sheetId, not the tab's title string.
All requests inside one batchUpdate are validated and applied atomically in order; if any single request is invalid, the entire call fails and nothing is applied.
Optionally set includeSpreadsheetInResponse: true to get the full updated Spreadsheet resource back in the same response instead of a separate spreadsheets.get call.
sheetId (integer) and title (string) are separate identifiers; AddSheetRequest/DeleteSheetRequest/UpdateSheetPropertiesRequest all key off sheetId, so capture the sheetId returned by addSheet before renaming or deleting that tab later.
UpdateSheetPropertiesRequest requires an explicit 'fields' mask naming every changed property; omitting it or forgetting to include "title" causes the request to be rejected even though the properties payload looks correct.
Sheets API write quota is 300 requests/minute per project and 60 requests/minute per user per project; bundling multiple add/rename/delete requests into one batchUpdate call still only consumes one unit of that quota.
A spreadsheet must always retain at least one visible sheet; a DeleteSheetRequest that would remove the last visible sheet is rejected.
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