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

You could have a look at Sheetfu. The following is an example from the README. It gives a super easy syntax to interact with spreadsheets as if it was a database table.

from sheetfu import Table

spreadsheet = SpreadsheetApp('path/to/secret.json').open_by_id('')
data_range = spreadsheet.get_sheet_by_name('people').get_data_range()

table = Table(data_range, backgrounds=True)

for item in table:
    if item.get_field_value('name') == 'foo':
        item.set_field_value('surname', 'bar')              # this set the surname field value
    age = item.get_field_value('age')
    item.set_field_value('age', age + 1)
    item.set_field_background('age', '#ff0000')             # this set the field 'age' to red color

# Every set functions are batched for speed performance.
# To send the batch update of every set requests you made,
# you need to commit the table object as follow.
table.commit()

Disclaimer: I'm the author of this library.