CSV Not Loading – Site Builds but Shows 0 Items

[Garnetwen]

Hi all, I’m building a site using the collectionbuilder-gh template. I’ve added a published Google Sheets CSV url in _config.yml for live updates. I’m running the site locally and using GitHub Actions to deploy.

The site builds successfully, but it still displays "0 items" on the homepage and on /browse.html:
https://garnetwen.github.io/arura-test/

Here are my links:
Repository: (https://github.com/Garnetwen/arura-test)
CSV Link: (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQVEl1sgnkiwbqRQNtzdYH7ckWalhoT9b1fP7h9eH3ifzTD086LELGHFJJq_E4kg1E2WZ8NJqD519eh/pub?output=csv)

My main questions:

1. Is there a way to confirm whether GitHub Pages is fetching and parsing the CSV?

2. Could the issue be in the CSV structure or formatting instead?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks you so much!!!

[evanwill]

@Garnetwen your project was started from collectionbuilder-gh, which does not support loading a live CSV directly from Sheets. That functionality is only available in collectionbuilder-sheets template. If you want to use a live sheet, you will have to start a new project from collectionbuilder-sheets, and copy your content over.
If you want the current project to work, you will have to download your metadata CSV and put it into the "_data" folder.

Note in "_config.yml", CB-GH uses the key metadata: (which can only be a csv file in the "_data" folder), where as CB-Sheets uses the key metadata-csv: (which can be a link or relative path to a csv file anywhere).
Here is the docs: https://collectionbuilder.github.io/cb-docs/docs/config/collection/

Good luck!

[Garnetwen]

Thank you so much!!! It definitely answer my question, and I will try again with the collectionbuilder-sheets!