My Workflow: Grasshopper + n8n + Google Sheets

This is how you can connect them.

One of the reasons for this Newsletter to exist is to share cool stuff.

Cool stuff related to Computational Design.

In the project I´m working on: the Masterplan.

We need to extract a lot of information: number of units, tower levels, podium areas, etc.

All that data is coming already from our workflow using Grasshopper with a lot of Elefront.

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Once your script is capable of produce all that data. What do you do with that?

You can create a csv file, an excel spreadsheet, for example.

Or you can upload it to the cloud, to Google Sheets, or Airtable.

Then produce nice dashboards from Airtable, Power BI, Tableau, etc…

It really depends on your project needs and your workflow.

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Let´s say, that you want to upload all that information into Google Sheets.

From Grasshopper, to Google Sheets.

How will you do that?

One of the most practical ways will be using n8n.

I have talked about n8n before.

An open source interface for visual scripting and automation.

You can connect it by default to so many things: Gmail, google docs, Airtable, Chatgpt, Claude, Whatsapp…

In this case, we want to connect it to Google Sheets.

And because it is easier to show you.

I made this short video for you, so you can understand it better:

We love visual scripting. That´s why it is easy to love n8n.

You can create workflows and they could live locally in your computer or in the cloud.

This way, you can always access them.

In this video, I connect Grasshopper to n8n through a simple python script.

If you want the script, let me know.

Just reply to this email.

Have a great week!

Isma