I maintain a library[1] that's pretty popular with the journalism crowd for converting Google Spreadsheets to JSON, and you're exactly right about the risk[2].

I maintain a library[1] that's pretty popular with the journalism crowd for converting Google Spreadsheets to JSON, and you're exactly right about the risk[2]. Google's been sitting on a bug for over 6 months now because API usage of Google Spreadsheets just isn't important enough to merit a fix[3]. We've sent people off into the caching world[4] to fit it on our end, but your criticism is unfortunately spot-on. [1] https://github.com/jsoma/tabletop https://github.com/jsoma/tabletop [2] https://github.com/jsoma/tabletop#okay-wait-weve-got-a-big-problem-but-a-solution-too https://github.com/jsoma/tabletop#okay-wait-weve-got-a-big-p... [3] http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/docs/documents/0pneogfgzN0 http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/docs/... [4] http://github.com/jsoma/flatware http://github.com/jsoma/flatware