How to Post Google Forms Data via jQuery and Ajax to Spreadsheets

Question

I'm working on a Chrome extension that's essentially a simple custom Google Form that will post to a response Spreadsheet. I got the following function to successfully send and populate data only once, but never again:

function postFormToGoogle() {
    var timeOne = $("#time1hour").val();
    var timeTwo = $('#time2hour').val();
    var timeThree = $('#time3hour').val();

    $.ajax({
        url: "https://docs.google.com/forms/d/FORMKEY/formResponse",
        beforeSend: function (xhr) {
          xhr.setRequestHeader('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', 'chrome-extension://EXTENSION_ID');
          xhr.setRequestHeader('Access-Control-Allow-Methods', 'GET, POST, PUT');
        },
        data: { "entry_856586387": timeOne, 
        "entry_244812041": timeTwo, 
        "entry_2138937452": timeThree },
        type: "POST",
        dataType: "xml",
        xhrFields: {
            withCredentials: true
        },
        statusCode: {
            0: function () {
                document.getElementById("message").innerHTML = "Your form has been submitted!";
                window.location.replace("ThankYou.html");
            },
            200: function () {
                document.getElementById("message").innerHTML = "Your form has been submitted!";
                console.log("Success");
                window.location.replace("ThankYou.html");
            }
        }
    });
}

I had to include the cors request headers because I was getting a No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' warning that blocked my request.

It being an extension, I also added the following permissions to the manifest.json file:

"permissions": [
  "http://docs.google.com",
  "https://docs.google.com",
  "https://*.google.com",
]

At this point, I'm not sure exactly what's preventing the data from posting. Possible indicators could be that when submitting the form I'm getting a "Provisional Headers are shown" caution and the server is taking way too long to respond as indicated by the Waiting (TTFB) time.

Where am I going wrong in the code? (It did work once, for some reason.) Any alternative solutions out there to post a custom form to Spreadsheets?

What's the `datatype` back from the server? Switch to `dataType: "html",` if it is `html`. — Dayton Wang, Mar 26 '15 at 00:07
Indeed, the response header `content-type` from the server is `html`. I switched the 'dataType' accordingly, but data is still not populating. I'm no longer getting the "Provisional Headers are shown" caution for the header request though. — corcovado, Mar 26 '15 at 00:43
Use `document.getElementById("message").innerText` instead of `document.getElementById("message").innerHTML`: https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/xhr. Also do you implement Cross-Domain XHRs in Content scripts? — Dayton Wang, Mar 26 '15 at 01:02
Turns out everything is fine with the code I shared. The main culprit was actually the `input` values on the html page. First I should point out that this form is using the Time Duration option on Google Forms, which has drop down menus for Hrs, Mins, and Secs. Digits 0 - 9 options had single digit values, when actually it's required that all values be double digits (01,02,etc.) in order for the request to be accepted. Thanks for your input, gui47. — corcovado, Mar 26 '15 at 02:47

score 8 · Answer 1 · edited Dec 04 '15 at 15:20

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This is the way I did it... http://jsfiddle.net/adutu/7towwv55/1/ You can see that you receive a CORS error but it works... the data gets where it should be

        function postToGoogle() {
            var field3 = $('#feed').val();

            $.ajax({
            url: "https://docs.google.com/forms/d/[key]/formResponse",
            data: {"entry.347455363": field3},
            type: "POST",
            dataType: "xml",
            statusCode: {
                0: function() {
                    //Success message
                },
                200: function() {
                    //Success Message
                }
            }
        });
        }

See more info here

edited Dec 04 '15 at 15:20

Xan

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CORS won't be a problem inside an extension – Xan Dec 04 '15 at 15:20
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I can send data in that way but if I have more than one section in google form then how to send values of next section ? – Bhuvnesh Gupta Aug 26 '16 at 08:42
This gets form data to my responses spreadsheet, but the CORS throws an error so I cannot do validation and success behaviors. The status code is 0 if it's a successful post and an unsuccessful post. – Edward May 02 '17 at 19:47

How to Post Google Forms Data via jQuery and Ajax to Spreadsheets

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