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

This thread seems to be quite old. If anyone's still looking, the steps mentioned here : https://github.com/burnash/gspread work very well.

import gspread
from oauth2client.service_account import ServiceAccountCredentials
import os

os.chdir(r'your_path')

scope = ['https://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds',
     'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive']

creds = ServiceAccountCredentials.from_json_keyfile_name('client_secret.json', scope)
gc = gspread.authorize(creds)
wks = gc.open("Trial_Sheet").sheet1
wks.update_acell('H3', "I'm here!")

Make sure to drop your credentials json file in your current directory. Rename it as client_secret.json.

You might run into errors if you don't enable Google Sheet API with your current credentials.