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I have used the google sheets API to implement something similar when working with a nonprofit. They needed a fairly complex listing on their website that needed search/sort/filter/mapping and needed to update this list regularly. So I just took their existing google sheets document, and accessed it as a read-only database in the browser using Google's REST api and it was fairly painless! If they ever broke anything I could easily go into the spreadsheet and fix it. This approach really reduced the effort needed. If I had to write a "proper" interface for them to enter and update their data I wouldn't have had time to work on their project.



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