Crear una hoja de cálculo
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En esta página, se describe cómo crear una hoja de cálculo.
Ejemplo
Para crear una hoja de cálculo, usa el método create en la colección spreadsheets, como se muestra en el siguiente ejemplo.
En este ejemplo, se crea una hoja de cálculo en blanco con un título especificado.
Trabaja con carpetas de Google Drive
No existe la opción de crear una hoja de cálculo directamente en una carpeta de Drive especificada con la API de Sheets. De forma predeterminada, la hoja de cálculo creada se guarda en la carpeta raíz del usuario en Drive.
Sin embargo, existen 2 alternativas para guardar un archivo en una carpeta de Drive:
- Después de crear la hoja de cálculo, muévela a una carpeta específica con el método files.update de la API de Drive. Para obtener más información sobre cómo mover archivos, consulta Cómo mover archivos entre carpetas.
- Agrega una hoja de cálculo en blanco a una carpeta con el método files.create de la API de Drive y especifica
application/vnd.google-apps.spreadsheet
como mimeType
. Para obtener más información sobre cómo crear archivos, consulta Crea un archivo en una carpeta.
Para cualquiera de las alternativas, deberás agregar los permisos de la API de Drive correspondientes para autorizar la llamada.
Para mover o crear un archivo en una carpeta de unidad compartida, consulta Implementa la compatibilidad con unidades compartidas.
Para obtener más información sobre los límites de celdas y filas en Hojas de cálculo de Google, consulta Archivos que se pueden guardar en Google Drive.
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Última actualización: 2025-08-29 (UTC)
[null,null,["Última actualización: 2025-08-29 (UTC)"],[],[],null,["# Create a spreadsheet\n\nThis page describes how to create a spreadsheet.\n\nExample\n-------\n\nTo create a spreadsheet, use the [create](/workspace/sheets/api/reference/rest/v4/spreadsheets/create)\nmethod on the [spreadsheets](/workspace/sheets/api/reference/rest/v4/spreadsheets) collection, as shown in the following example.\n\nThis example creates a blank spreadsheet with a specified title. \n\n### Apps Script\n\nsheets/api/spreadsheet_snippets.gs \n[View on GitHub](https://github.com/googleworkspace/apps-script-samples/blob/main/sheets/api/spreadsheet_snippets.gs) \n\n```javascript\n/**\n * Creates a new sheet using the sheets advanced services\n * @param {string} title the name of the sheet to be created\n * @returns {string} the spreadsheet ID\n */\nSnippets.prototype.create = (title) =\u003e {\n // This code uses the Sheets Advanced Service, but for most use cases\n // the built-in method SpreadsheetApp.create() is more appropriate.\n try {\n let sheet = Sheets.newSpreadsheet();\n sheet.properties = Sheets.newSpreadsheetProperties();\n sheet.properties.title = title;\n const spreadsheet = Sheets.Spreadsheets.create(sheet);\n\n return spreadsheet.spreadsheetId;\n } catch (err) {\n // TODO (developer) - Handle exception\n console.log('Failed with error %s', err.message);\n }\n};\n```\n\n### Java\n\nsheets/snippets/src/main/java/Create.java \n[View on GitHub](https://github.com/googleworkspace/java-samples/blob/main/sheets/snippets/src/main/java/Create.java) \n\n```java\nimport com.google.api.client.http.HttpRequestInitializer;\nimport com.google.api.client.http.javanet.NetHttpTransport;\nimport com.google.api.client.json.gson.GsonFactory;\nimport com.google.api.services.sheets.v4.Sheets;\nimport com.google.api.services.sheets.v4.SheetsScopes;\nimport com.google.api.services.sheets.v4.model.Spreadsheet;\nimport com.google.api.services.sheets.v4.model.SpreadsheetProperties;\nimport com.google.auth.http.HttpCredentialsAdapter;\nimport com.google.auth.oauth2.GoogleCredentials;\nimport java.io.IOException;\nimport java.util.Collections;\n\n/* Class to demonstrate the use of Spreadsheet Create API */\npublic class Create {\n /**\n * Create a new spreadsheet.\n *\n * @param title - the name of the sheet to be created.\n * @return newly created spreadsheet id\n * @throws IOException - if credentials file not found.\n */\n public static String createSpreadsheet(String title) throws IOException {\n /* Load pre-authorized user credentials from the environment.\n TODO(developer) - See https://developers.google.com/identity for\n guides on implementing OAuth2 for your application. */\n GoogleCredentials credentials = GoogleCredentials.getApplicationDefault()\n .createScoped(Collections.singleton(SheetsScopes.SPREADSHEETS));\n HttpRequestInitializer requestInitializer = new HttpCredentialsAdapter(\n credentials);\n\n // Create the sheets API client\n Sheets service = new Sheets.Builder(new NetHttpTransport(),\n GsonFactory.getDefaultInstance(),\n requestInitializer)\n .setApplicationName(\"Sheets samples\")\n .build();\n\n // Create new spreadsheet with a title\n Spreadsheet spreadsheet = new Spreadsheet()\n .setProperties(new SpreadsheetProperties()\n .setTitle(title));\n spreadsheet = service.spreadsheets().create(spreadsheet)\n .setFields(\"spreadsheetId\")\n .execute();\n // Prints the new spreadsheet id\n System.out.println(\"Spreadsheet ID: \" + spreadsheet.getSpreadsheetId());\n return spreadsheet.getSpreadsheetId();\n }\n}\n```\n\n### JavaScript\n\nsheets/snippets/sheets_create.js \n[View on GitHub](https://github.com/googleworkspace/browser-samples/blob/main/sheets/snippets/sheets_create.js) \n\n```javascript\nfunction create(title, callback) {\n try {\n gapi.client.sheets.spreadsheets.create({\n properties: {\n title: title,\n },\n }).then((response) =\u003e {\n if (callback) callback(response);\n console.log('Spreadsheet ID: ' + response.result.spreadsheetId);\n });\n } catch (err) {\n document.getElementById('content').innerText = err.message;\n return;\n }\n}\n```\n\n### Node.js\n\nsheets/snippets/sheets_create.js \n[View on GitHub](https://github.com/googleworkspace/node-samples/blob/main/sheets/snippets/sheets_create.js) \n\n```javascript\n/**\n * Create a google spreadsheet\n * @param {string} title Spreadsheets title\n * @return {string} Created spreadsheets ID\n */\nasync function create(title) {\n const {GoogleAuth} = require('google-auth-library');\n const {google} = require('googleapis');\n\n const auth = new GoogleAuth({\n scopes: 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/spreadsheets',\n });\n\n const service = google.sheets({version: 'v4', auth});\n const resource = {\n properties: {\n title,\n },\n };\n try {\n const spreadsheet = await service.spreadsheets.create({\n resource,\n fields: 'spreadsheetId',\n });\n console.log(`Spreadsheet ID: ${spreadsheet.data.spreadsheetId}`);\n return spreadsheet.data.spreadsheetId;\n } catch (err) {\n // TODO (developer) - Handle exception\n throw err;\n }\n}\n```\n\n### PHP\n\nsheets/snippets/src/SpreadsheetCreate.php \n[View on GitHub](https://github.com/googleworkspace/php-samples/blob/main/sheets/snippets/src/SpreadsheetCreate.php) \n\n```php\n\u003c?php\nuse Google\\Client;\nuse Google\\Service\\Drive;\nuse Google\\Service\\Sheets\\SpreadSheet;\n\n/**\n* create an empty spreadsheet\n* \n*/\n\n function create($title)\n { \n /* Load pre-authorized user credentials from the environment.\n TODO(developer) - See https://developers.google.com/identity for\n guides on implementing OAuth2 for your application. */\n $client = new Google\\Client();\n $client-\u003euseApplicationDefaultCredentials();\n $client-\u003eaddScope(Google\\Service\\Drive::DRIVE);\n $service = new Google_Service_Sheets($client);\n try{\n\n $spreadsheet = new Google_Service_Sheets_Spreadsheet([\n 'properties' =\u003e [\n 'title' =\u003e $title\n ]\n ]);\n $spreadsheet = $service-\u003espreadsheets-\u003ecreate($spreadsheet, [\n 'fields' =\u003e 'spreadsheetId'\n ]);\n printf(\"Spreadsheet ID: %s\\n\", $spreadsheet-\u003espreadsheetId);\n return $spreadsheet-\u003espreadsheetId;\n }\n catch(Exception $e) {\n // TODO(developer) - handle error appropriately\n echo 'Message: ' .$e-\u003egetMessage();\n }\n }\n```\n\n### Python\n\nsheets/snippets/sheets_create.py \n[View on GitHub](https://github.com/googleworkspace/python-samples/blob/main/sheets/snippets/sheets_create.py) \n\n```python\nimport google.auth\nfrom googleapiclient.discovery import build\nfrom googleapiclient.errors import HttpError\n\n\ndef create(title):\n \"\"\"\n Creates the Sheet the user has access to.\n Load pre-authorized user credentials from the environment.\n TODO(developer) - See https://developers.google.com/identity\n for guides on implementing OAuth2 for the application.\n \"\"\"\n creds, _ = google.auth.default()\n # pylint: disable=maybe-no-member\n try:\n service = build(\"sheets\", \"v4\", credentials=creds)\n spreadsheet = {\"properties\": {\"title\": title}}\n spreadsheet = (\n service.spreadsheets()\n .create(body=spreadsheet, fields=\"spreadsheetId\")\n .execute()\n )\n print(f\"Spreadsheet ID: {(spreadsheet.get('spreadsheetId'))}\")\n return spreadsheet.get(\"spreadsheetId\")\n except HttpError as error:\n print(f\"An error occurred: {error}\")\n return error\n\n\nif __name__ == \"__main__\":\n # Pass: title\n create(\"mysheet1\")\n```\n\n### Ruby\n\nsheets/snippets/lib/spreadsheet_snippets.rb \n[View on GitHub](https://github.com/googleworkspace/ruby-samples/blob/main/sheets/snippets/lib/spreadsheet_snippets.rb) \n\n```ruby\nspreadsheet = {\n properties: {\n title: 'Sales Report'\n }\n}\nspreadsheet = service.create_spreadsheet(spreadsheet,\n fields: 'spreadsheetId')\nputs \"Spreadsheet ID: #{spreadsheet.spreadsheet_id}\"\n```\n\n### Work with Google Drive folders\n\nThere's no option to create a spreadsheet directly within a specified Drive folder using the Sheets API. By default, the created spreadsheet is saved to the user's root folder on Drive.\n\nHowever, there are 2 alternatives to saving a file to a Drive folder:\n\n- After the spreadsheet is created, move it to a specific folder using the [files.update](/drive/api/v3/reference/files/update) method of the Drive API. For more information on moving files, refer to [Move files between folders](/drive/api/guides/folder#move_files_between_folders).\n- Add a blank spreadsheet to a folder using the [files.create](/drive/v3/reference/files/create) method of the Drive API, specifying `application/vnd.google-apps.spreadsheet` as the `mimeType`. For more information on creating files, refer to [Create a file in a folder](/drive/api/guides/folder#create_a_file_in_a_folder).\n\nFor either alternative, you'll need to add the appropriate [Drive\nAPI scopes](/drive/api/v3/reference/files/create#auth) to authorize the call.\n\nTo move or create a file within a shared drive folder, refer to [Implement shared drive support](/drive/api/guides/enable-shareddrives).\n\nTo learn more about cell and row limits in Google Sheets, see [Files you can store in Google Drive](https://support.google.com/drive/answer/37603)."]]