Installation

google_spreadsheet is on PyPI, so simply run:

pip install google_spreadsheet

or

easy_install google_spreadsheet

to have it installed in your environment.

For installing from source, clone the repo and run:

python setup.py install

Usage scenarios

Two typical usecases where google_spreadsheet is helpful there are: 1. create new spreadsheet with restricted acccess rules, 2. append data to existing spreadsheet.

You can use it for export your user data to the google spreadsheet. And sharing this data to all around the world or sharing to specific users.

Example 1: create spreadsheet

from google_spreadsheet import get_credentials, Spreadsheets


def create_example():
    credentials = get_credentials('auth.json', [
        'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive',
        'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/spreadsheets'])
    api = Spreadsheets(credentials=credentials)
    sheet = api.create('test1', writers=['pahaz.blinov@gmail.com'])
    print(sheet)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    create_example()

Example 2: append row to existing spreadsheet

from google_spreadsheet import get_credentials, Spreadsheets


def append_data_example():
    credentials = get_credentials('auth.json', [
        'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive',
        'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/spreadsheets'])
    api = Spreadsheets(credentials=credentials)
    sheet = api.get('1jSHsmPTOOiPXdYQlrVBwbo3MO1vp64lmi5R_Ld_duKo')
    sheet.append([[1, 2], [3, 4]])


if __name__ == '__main__':
    append_data_example()