How do I access (read, write) Google Sheets spreadsheets with Python?

Question

I am wondering if you can point me to an example of reading/writing to/from a google doc/spreadsheet using python.

I did look at google docs API here https://develo

Answer 1

Take a look at gspread port for api v4 - pygsheets. It should be very easy to use rather than the google client.

Sample example

import pygsheets

gc = pygsheets.authorize()

# Open spreadsheet and then workseet
sh = gc.open('my new ssheet')
wks = sh.sheet1

# Update a cell with value (just to let him know values is updated ;) )
wks.update_cell('A1', "Hey yank this numpy array")

# update the sheet with array
wks.update_cells('A2', my_nparray.to_list())

# share the sheet with your friend
sh.share("myFriend@gmail.com")

See the docs here.

Author here.

Answer 2

I know this thread is old now, but here is some decent documentation on Google Docs API. It was ridiculously hard to find, but useful, so maybe it will help you some. http://pythonhosted.org/gdata/docs/api.html.

I used gspread recently for a project to graph employee time data. I don't know how much it might help you, but here's a link to the code: https://github.com/lightcastle/employee-timecards

Gspread made things pretty easy for me. I was also able to add logic in to check for various conditions to create month-to-date and year-to-date results. But I just imported the whole dang spreadsheet and parsed it from there, so I'm not 100% sure that it is exactly what you're looking for. Best of luck.