Using the google drive API to download a spreadsheet in csv format

Question

I\'m sorry if this is an obvious question, I\'m still pretty new to the API. I\'m using the python drive api library, and trying to download a google spreadsheet as a csv.

Answer 1

The exportLinks collection doesn't expose the CSV format as this will only export the first worksheet of a spreadsheet. If retrieving the first worksheet as a CSV is the behavior you are looking for, you can build the link manually and set the ?exportFormat= query parameter to ?exportFormat=csv.