Google Sheets: Exporting to TSV - google-sheets

Question

I would like to create a function that automatically exports the current sheet to a TSV file on Google Sheets. Is it possible to export to a tab separated values file using Google Apps Script, i.e. like convertRangeToCsvFile for CSV?

Answer 1

I found this code for csv files by Michael Derazon and modified it for tsv files. I hope it helps.
/*
* script to export data in all sheets in the current spreadsheet as individual csv files
* files will be named according to the name of the sheet
* author: Michael Derazon
*/
function onOpen() {
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var tsvMenuEntries = [{name: "export as TSV files", functionName: "saveAstsv"}];
ss.addMenu("tsv", tsvMenuEntries);
};
function saveAstsv() {
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
var sheets = ss.getSheets();
// create a folder from the name of the spreadsheet
var folder = DriveApp.createFolder(ss.getName().toLowerCase().replace(/ /g,'_') + '_tsv_' + new Date().getTime());
for (var i = 0 ; i < sheets.length ; i++) {
var sheet = sheets[i];
// append ".tsv" extension to the sheet name
fileName = sheet.getName() + ".tsv";
// convert all available sheet data to tsv format
var tsvFile = convertRangeTotsvFile_(fileName, sheet);
// create a file in the Docs List with the given name and the tsv data
folder.createFile(fileName, tsvFile);
}
Browser.msgBox('Files are waiting in a folder named ' + folder.getName());
}
function convertRangeTotsvFile_(tsvFileName, sheet) {
// get available data range in the spreadsheet
var activeRange = sheet.getDataRange();
try {
var data = activeRange.getValues();
var tsvFile = undefined;
// loop through the data in the range and build a string with the tsv data
if (data.length > 1) {
var tsv = "";
for (var row = 0; row < data.length; row++) {
for (var col = 0; col < data[row].length; col++) {
if (data[row][col].toString().indexOf("\t") != -1) {
data[row][col] = "\"" + data[row][col] + "\"";
}
}
// join each row's columns
// add a carriage return to end of each row, except for the last one
if (row < data.length-1) {
tsv += data[row].join("\t") + "\r\n";
}
else {
tsv += data[row].join("\t");
}
}
tsvFile = tsv;
}
return tsvFile;
}
catch(err) {
Logger.log(err);
Browser.msgBox(err);
}
}