How to download CSV file from the web with dowload URL Swift - swift

Question

So I need to get the data from a google sheet (which I'm trying to generate the link for, not sure), but I have a dummy link which works. I wrote this code to download the CSV file from the spreadsheet and then parse it into an array. When I print the parsed CSV, I simply get an array with one element which is App/... some location in the system.
func getDataFromSheet(){
let urlString = "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vT2-wSYyvNPeF7W3HGyw_MPhMXfuQwzBMAx8SjBOWR5PlZpeTZUCmKuPo044wYKLpweZe7ucUVl0yT5/pub?gid=1025030631&single=true&output=csv"
// 2
if let imageUrl = URL(string: urlString) {
// 3
URLSession.shared.downloadTask(with: imageUrl) { (tempFileUrl, response, error) in
// 4
if let imageTempFileUrl = tempFileUrl {
do {
let content = try String(data: imageTempFileUrl.dataRepresentation, encoding: .utf8)
let parsedCSV: [String] = content!.components(
separatedBy: "\n"
).map{ $0.components(separatedBy: ",")[0] }
print(parsedCSV.description)
} catch {
print("Error")
}
}
}.resume()
}
}

Answer 1

try this example code, works for me:
func getDataFromSheet() {
let urlString = "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vT2-wSYyvNPeF7W3HGyw_MPhMXfuQwzBMAx8SjBOWR5PlZpeTZUCmKuPo044wYKLpweZe7ucUVl0yT5/pub?gid=1025030631&single=true&output=csv"
guard let url = URL(string: urlString) else { print("error"); return }
URLSession.shared.dataTask(with: url) { data, response, error in
if let data = data {
if let content = String(data: data, encoding: .utf8) {
let parsedCSV: [String] = content.components(separatedBy: "\n")
// all data
print(parsedCSV, "\n")
// first line
print(parsedCSV.map{ $0.components(separatedBy: ",")}[0], "\n")
// second line
print(parsedCSV.map{ $0.components(separatedBy: ",")}[1], "\n")
}
}
}.resume()
}