Google Sheets to Images: Auto-Upload to Drive
Automate image generation from Google Sheets rows with Imejis.io and Zapier. Generated images save directly to Google Drive. Step-by-step tutorial.
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Google Sheets Integration - Images From Rows
A spreadsheet is the most common place image data already lives: one row per product, per attendee, per post. Imejis turns each row into a finished image using the columns you already have.
There is no first-party Sheets connector. The link runs through Zapier or Make, both of which have native Google Sheets triggers.
What you can automateWhat you can automate
- One social image per row, rendered as the sheet fills up.
- Product and price cards kept in step with a catalogue sheet.
- Certificates or badges from a list of names.
How to connectHow to connect
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In Zapier or Make, trigger on New Spreadsheet Row or New or Updated Row.
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Add an HTTP step pointing at your design's render endpoint, with
?delivery=hostedso you get a stored URL back rather than raw bytes:https://render.imejis.io/v1/<designId>?delivery=hosted -
Send the
dma-api-keyheader and POST the row's columns as overrides:{ "title": { "text": "Weekend Sale" }, "discount": { "text": "30% off" } } -
Finish with an Update Spreadsheet Row step, writing the returned URL into an Image URL column on that same row.
Write the url back and check it firstWrite the URL back, and check it first
The write-back is what makes this repeatable. Without it you have images and no record of which row produced which, so a re-run renders everything again.
Add one more thing: have the automation skip rows where the Image URL column is already filled. Most triggers fire on updated rows as well as new ones, and writing the URL back is itself an update. Without the check, the write-back retriggers the automation, which renders again, which writes again. People usually notice when the quota does.
A sheet is not a bulk uploadA sheet is not a bulk upload
Worth being precise, because the wording in this space is loose. There is no CSV upload. What you have is one render per row, driven by an automation platform that reads the sheet.
For a few hundred rows that distinction does not matter, because the automation loops for you. It matters for how you count: 400 rows is 400 renders, the free tier is 100 renders a month, and paid plans start at $14.99 for 1,000 (as of November 2026). See the pricing page.
Going furtherGoing further
- A complete worked Zap, Sheets to image to Google Drive, is in generating images from Google Sheets.
- Charts from spreadsheet data are a different job, covered in chart images from Google Sheets.
- To call the endpoint from your own code, see the API reference.
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