Hourly
Export a monday.com board to Google Sheets hourly
Every hour, a Google Sheets tab is replaced with the current items of a monday.com board, one row per item and one column per board column.
- Runs
- Hourly
- Apps
- Google Sheets, monday.com
- AI
- Not needed
- Access
- boards:read; Google Sheets (spreadsheets)
Send this to your assistant
Create a ClickRuntime automation: every hour, read every item on my Projects board in monday.com, including the group and all column values, and overwrite the Board tab in my Google Sheet with a header row of column titles and one row per item.
First time? Adding ClickRuntime to your assistant takes about two minutes.
Why use it
Why teams use this automation
monday.com is good for running work, but reporting, pivot tables and sharing with people outside the account are often easier in Google Sheets.
Exporting by hand gives you a copy that is out of date the moment someone changes an item. An hourly export keeps the sheet close to the board without anyone touching it.
Because the tab is replaced each time, deleted and moved items disappear from the sheet too, so the numbers match what the board shows.
What you get out of it
Always current
The sheet is refreshed every hour with the board's latest items and values.
Every column included
Headers come from your board's column titles, so new columns appear automatically.
Ready for reports
Pivot tables, charts and formulas on other tabs update as the data changes.
Share without seats
People who only need to read the data can use the sheet without a monday.com account.
Large boards work
Items are read in pages, so boards with thousands of rows export fully.
How it works
What happens, step by step
Every hour ClickRuntime reads your board's column titles and every item, page by page.
It builds a header row from the column titles, plus item name, group and link.
The Board tab in your sheet is cleared and refilled, so it always matches the board.
Formulas and charts on other tabs can point at the Board tab and stay current.
Before it runs live
- Connect your Google Sheets account and pick the spreadsheets it may use
- Connect monday.com
What you get
Build your own
Need it to work differently?
Your own rules
Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.
Any number of apps
One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.
AI where it helps
Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.
On a schedule or on each event
Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.
Changes you can ask for
- Run it at a different time, more or less often, or only on weekdays
- Add an AI step, for example to summarize, sort or draft a reply
- Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
- Combine it with other Google Sheets and monday.com steps into one automation
Under the hood
The code that runs this automation
from google.oauth2.credentials import Credentials
from googleapiclient.discovery import build
from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, http
SHEET_ID, TAB, BOARD = "your-spreadsheet-id", "Board", 1234567890
FIRST = """query ($board: [ID!]) { boards(ids: $board) { columns { id title }
items_page(limit: 500) { cursor items { name url group { title } column_values { id text } } } } }"""
NEXT = """query ($cursor: String!) { next_items_page(limit: 500, cursor: $cursor) { cursor
items { name url group { title } column_values { id text } } } }"""
def monday(query, **variables):
resp = http.post("https://api.monday.com/v2", json={"query": query, "variables": variables},
headers={"Authorization": credentials.secret("MONDAY_API_TOKEN"), "API-Version": "2024-10"})
resp.raise_for_status()
return resp.json()["data"]
@on_trigger
def run(event):
board = monday(FIRST, board=[BOARD])["boards"][0]
cols = [c for c in board["columns"] if c["id"] != "name"]
page, items = board["items_page"], []
while True:
items += page["items"]
if not page["cursor"]:
break
page = monday(NEXT, cursor=page["cursor"])["next_items_page"]
rows = [["Item", "Group"] + [c["title"] for c in cols] + ["Link"]]
for i in items:
v = {x["id"]: x["text"] or "" for x in i["column_values"]}
rows.append([i["name"], i["group"]["title"]] + [v.get(c["id"], "") for c in cols] + [i["url"]])
values = build("sheets", "v4", credentials=Credentials(credentials.connection("google", "work")), cache_discovery=False).spreadsheets().values()
values.clear(spreadsheetId=SHEET_ID, range=f"{TAB}!A:ZZ").execute()
values.update(spreadsheetId=SHEET_ID, range=f"{TAB}!A1", valueInputOption="RAW", body={"values": rows}).execute()
return {"items": len(items), "columns": len(cols)}FAQ
Common questions
How is this different from a daily snapshot?
Can I add my own columns next to the export?
Does it handle boards with thousands of items?
What permissions does it need?
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How many runs does it use?
Can I change how it works?
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