cloudpandas 0.1.6

Client for www.cloudpandas.com API.

CloudPandas Client

This module provides a client for working with the CloudPandas API. CloudPandas is a SaaS platform to streamline working with cloud based spreadsheets such as SmartSheet and Google Sheets using Python Pandas. It allows users to read from and write to, these cloud based spreadsheets as DataFrames.

See full documentation at https://www.cloudpandas.com/account/support/

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Install CloudPandas Module

Preferred Method: PIP

python3 -m pip install cloudpandas

Alternate Method: Download from GitHub

git clone https://github.com/jefalexa/cloudpandas.git

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Use CloudPandas Module

Import

Once you have installed the module, you can then import it into your Python scripts.

import pandas as pd

import cloudpandas

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Initialize Client

Get your API token from https://www.cloudpandas.com/account/tokenget/

client = cloudpandas.Client('YOUR-API-TOKEN')

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List Data Providers

You can see the data providers that are active in your account using:

client.dataproviders.list()

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List Sheets

List the sheets in a given data provider using:

client.sheets.list(provider_name)

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Get Sheet Info

You can optionally, get information about a sheet before loading it.

client.sheets.info(provider_name, sheet_name)

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Load Data from Sheet

Load a sheet from the data provider as a Pandas DataFrame.

DF = client.sheets.get(provider_name, sheet_name)

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Create a New Sheet

You can write data from a Pandas DataFrame to a new cloud sheet using:

client.sheets.create(DF, provider_name, sheet_name=sheet_name, sheet_type=sheet_type)

sheet_type options are 'sheet' for creating a native cloud sheet in SmartSheet or Google Sheets, or 'excel' or 'csv' for writing a file to Box, Dropbox, Google Drive.

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Update Existing Sheet

You can update an existing sheet with changes from a DataFrame using:

client.sheets.update(DF, provider_name, sheet_id=sheet_id)

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Delete Existing Sheet

Sheets can be deleted using:

client.sheets.delete(provider_name, sheet_id=sheet_id)