Asana is a project and task management tool. In this guide, we’ll walk through how to pull tasks from the Asana API directly into Google Sheets, using the free API Connector add-on. We’ll first get a personal access token from Asana, and then set up a request to pull in data from Asana to your spreadsheet.

PART 1: GET YOUR ASANA PERSONAL ACCESS TOKEN

1. Log in to Asana and click your profile icon in the top right corner to open the profile drop-down menu. Click ‘My Profile Settings’
   




2. From the My Profile Settings menu, click Apps
   




3. Click Manage Developer Apps
   




4. On the Developer Apps screen, click “Create New Personal Access Token”
   




5. A screen will open, prompting you to provide some details.
   




6. Once you click “Create”, you’ll see a Token. Copy this as we’ll need it shortly. Congrats, you’re now ready to get started pulling data out of Asana’s API.
   

PART 2: CREATE YOUR API REQUEST

We’re going to follow the Asana API documentation to make a simple request with the /me endpoint.

• Base URL:https://app.asana.com/api/1.0
• Endpoint: /users/me

Putting it all together, we get the full API Request URL:
https://app.asana.com/api/1.0/users/me

We can now enter all our values into API Connector to start importing Asana data into Google Sheets.

1. Open up Google Sheets and click Add-ons > API Connector > Create New API Request.
2. In the Create Request interface, enter the Request URL we just created
   




3. Under Headers, enter a key-value pair like this:
   

   Authorization

   Bearer {Token}

   Replace {Token} with the personal access token you got above in step 6.
   




4. Create a new tab. You can call it whatever you like, but here we’ll call it ‘Asana User’. While still in that tab, click ‘Set’ to use that tab as your data destination.
5. Name your request. Again we’ll call it ‘Asana User’
6. Click Run and a moment later you’ll see details about your account populate the Asana User tab in your Google Sheet:
   




7. Pay special attention to the field labeled data » workspaces » gid. This is your workspace ID, we can use that to make further requests for tasks and project information.
8. Experiment with different endpoints and query strings as described in the documentation. For example, to retrieve all your tasks, enter the following in the API Request field: https://app.asana.com/api/1.0/projects/{projectID}/tasks. Replace {projectID} with your project ID (click on your project and check the URL bar to see this value).
   

Following the above steps, you will now be able to import data from the Asana API directly into Google Sheets. By setting Google Sheets as a data source, you can also use this method to create Asana data visualizations and dashboards in Google Data Studio.