Q: Accessing Google Spreadsheet feed during downtime I am wondering if there is any information on how the published feed of a spreadsheet may be affected by a temporary period of downtime to the Google Docs Spreadsheets service. 
Would the feeds still be available during this period or downtime? 
Are there any circumstances in which a feed may not be available? 
I would assume that feeds are cached.

A: There are numerous circumstances here that make this a difficult question to answer, primarily because portions of Google Spreadsheets could be "down", even though the system is still usable.
For the most part, though:  If Google Spreadsheets were completely down, then yes, the Google Spreadsheets API would also be down.  The feeds are not cached.
Applications using the Google Spreadsheets API should implement local caching as a best practice.
