Dvd848 / Cheat-Sheets

Mini-infrastructure for hosting cheat sheets

Cheat Sheets

CheatSheet.html is a mini-infrastructure for hosting cheat sheets.

It's basically a minimalistic HTML page which pulls its content from a public Google Sheets spreadsheet (or from a static JSON file).

Cheat sheets currently available:

• Git Cheat Sheet

Customization

In order to use this infrastructure for your own cheat sheets:

1. Create a new Google Drive Spreadsheet
2. Add the following columns as a header: Category, Subcategory, Weight, Is Starred?, Command, Description, More Info, Output
3. Change the spreadsheet permissions so that it has public Read-Only permissions
4. Modify SPREADSHEET_ID in CheatSheet.html to point to your spreadsheet ID
5. Modify the table of contents under setupCheatSheet to include the spreadsheet name (and any information that should appear in the footer)

At this point, there are two options to access the spreadsheet content:

1. Using a Google Spreadsheet API Key:
   1. Create an API Key using the instructions here
   2. Append the API Key to the request, e.g. CheatSheet.html?google_api_key=<API_KEY>
2. Using a static JSON file:
   1. Access the spreadsheet via https://sheets.googleapis.com/v4/spreadsheets/<SPREADSHEET_ID>/values/<SPREADSHEET_NAME>?key=<API_KEY>
   2. Save the resulting JSON file to the same directory as CheatSheet.html

See this StackOverflow Question for more information about accessing Google Spreadsheets as JSON files.