django-gsheets

Django app for keeping models and google sheets synced

Purpose

django-gsheets is a pluggable Django app that adds functionality (via mixins) to models allowing them to sync data to and from Google Sheets. The app errs on the side of caution in that deletions from your DB won't propagate to the sheet and visa versa.

Installation

Install django-gsheets

pip install django-gsheets

Add django-gsheets to INSTALLED_APPS

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    'gsheets',
    ...
]

After adding, make sure to run migrate

Create a Google Cloud Project and Download OAuth Client Secrets

Google has a good guide for that here (you only need to do Step 1).

Update Project Settings

Update your project settings to tell django-gsheets where the downloaded credentials are. You should just need the following:

GSHEETS = {
    'CLIENT_SECRETS': '<PATH TO DOWNLOADED CREDS>'
}

Add GSheets URLS to the Project

Update your project URLs to include django-gsheets paths.

urlpatterns = [
    ...
    path('', include('gsheets.urls')),
]

Usage

Add the SheetSyncableMixin to a Model

In order to provide two-way sync capability to a models' data, all you need to do is add the SheetSyncableMixin to it and tell the model what sheet to use. For example:

from django.db import models
from gsheets import mixins
from uuid import uuid4


class Person(mixins.SheetSyncableMixin, models.Model):
    spreadsheet_id = '18F_HLftNtaouHgA3fmfT2M1Va9oO-YWTBw2EDsuz8V4'
    model_id_field = 'guid'

    guid = models.CharField(primary_key=True, max_length=255, default=uuid4)

    first_name = models.CharField(max_length=127)
    last_name = models.CharField(max_length=127)
    email = models.CharField(max_length=127, null=True, blank=True, default=None)
    phone = models.CharField(max_length=127, null=True, blank=True, default=None)

    def __str__(self):
        return f'{self.first_name} {self.last_name} // {self.email} ({self.guid})'

To two-way sync sheet data, simply run Person.sync_sheet().

If you want to be more fine-grained and have models that either just push to Google Sheets or just pull, you can swap SheetSyncableMixin for SheetPushableMixin or SheetPullableMixin (respectively).

Authorize Google Sheets

Before your first usage, you'll need to authorize the app to perform operations on your Google Sheets. To do so, access /gsheets/authorize/ on your application and go through the standard oauth flow.

Further Configuration

You can further configure the functionality of sheet sync by specifying any of the following fields on the model.

Postprocessing

You can hook into the postprocessing step of row pulling to perform operations like tying the model instance to a related object. For example, the following demonstrates using the sheet_row_processed signal to update a Car with it's owner information based on a field called owner_last_name in the spreadsheet

from django.dispatch import receiver
from django.core.exceptions import ObjectDoesNotExist
from gsheets.signals import sheet_row_processed
from .models import Car, Person


@receiver(sheet_row_processed, sender=Car)
def tie_car_to_owner(instance=None, created=None, row_data=None, **kwargs):
    try:
        instance.owner = Person.objects.get(last_name__iexact=row_data['owner_last_name'])
        instance.save()
    except (ObjectDoesNotExist, KeyError):
        pass

Management Commands

If you don't want to manually sync data to and from models to gsheets, django-gsheets ships with a handy management command that automatically discovers all models mixing in one of SheetPullableMixin, SheetPushableMixin, or SheetSyncableMixin and runs the appropriate sync command. To execute, simply run python manage.py syncgsheets.

Known Limitations

• No support for Related fields

Development

Any and all contributions welcome. To get started with a development environment, simply pull down a copy of this repo and bring up the environment with docker-compose up -d. Before doing so, however, you should have the following in place:

1. A google project setup (notes on that in the Installation section above). After setting up, download the client credentials JSON file to the creds folder in this repo. This folder is volume mounted into the running application container at /creds.
2. An ngrok (or similar) server set up to proxy an https connection to your local dev environment. You'll need this because Google OAuth2 only supports https redirect URIs.