# Data source extern
**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/data-source-extern/2560238
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Created:** [August 24, 2023, 2:29pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/data-source-extern/2560238 "2023-08-24T14:29:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@team.eps.numeriqueg](https://community.thunkable.com/u/team.eps.numeriqueg)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2023, 2:29pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/data-source-extern/2560238/1 "2023-08-24T14:29:40Z")
Hello, I was wondering if it was possible to create a block that would allow you to find a list of data recorded on an external database without it being managed by the creator of the application? Let me explain, I would like people using the app to be able to insert lists of data into the app by inserting in a box, for example, the google sheet link of their own list. Is it possible ?
Thank you so much
---
### Author:  [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2023, 2:47pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/data-source-extern/2560238/2 "2023-08-24T14:47:37Z")
I think you could do this with the Google Sheets API. But I’ve never tried.
---
### Author:  [@team.eps.numeriqueg](https://community.thunkable.com/u/team.eps.numeriqueg)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2023, 2:52pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/data-source-extern/2560238/3 "2023-08-24T14:52:30Z")
The concern of the google sheet API is that we are the ones who have the google sheet link. I would like people with the application to be able to modify themselves inside the google sheet so that the lists are also modified
---
### Author:  [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2023, 5:51pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/data-source-extern/2560238/4 "2023-08-24T17:51:21Z")
I don’t think that’s true. As with an API used in Thunkable, you provide a custom url. So you can have the user input the portion of the url that is unique to them and concatenate it into a full url using the Join block from the Text drawer.
I do worry about privacy concerns if each user has to enter a Google Sheets url into your app but you’d have to address that however you choose to.
---
### Author:  [@system](https://community.thunkable.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2023, 5:52pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/data-source-extern/2560238/5 "2023-11-22T17:52:00Z")
This topic was automatically closed 90 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.