# How to save data from Realtime Database to Google Spreadsheet (or other place)

**URL:** <https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-save-data-from-realtime-database-to-google-spreadsheet-or-other-place/1397988>\
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\
**Tags:** firebase, database, design, spreadsheets\
**Created:** [July 15, 2021, 4:34pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-save-data-from-realtime-database-to-google-spreadsheet-or-other-place/1397988 "2021-07-15T16:34:04Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 16, 2021, 9:07pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-save-data-from-realtime-database-to-google-spreadsheet-or-other-place/1397988/5 "2021-07-16T21:07:25Z")

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dont move data between sources. use one or the other, anything else will decrease app performance and increase overhead consumption of resources.

why do you feel that you can’t do this from your thinkable app or do you mean that you want to build something like a web dashboard to view your info?

orr you could take the road less traveled around here and learn to work the API connector!

> [@\[Solved\] Google oAuth using Web API](https://community.thunkable.com/t/solved-google-oauth-using-web-api/327756/10):
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> Here is the working project… [https://x.thunkable.com/copy/8f9209b8af7ecad132a27d0eb4253bc3](https://x.thunkable.com/copy/8f9209b8af7ecad132a27d0eb4253bc3) To use it you will need to go to [https://console.developers.google.com/apis/credentials](https://console.developers.google.com/apis/credentials) and create both an API key and a OAuth 2.0 client ID which is authorized for a web application. You’ll also need a spreadsheet ID and a sheet name (the default is “Sheet1”). To be honest, I don’t remember which steps were important versus those which led me in the wrong direction since there is more bad advice out t…

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