gserializer 1.0.4

Retrieve and serialize a google sheet into list-like object for much simpler direct manipulations without api calls

Google Sheets Serializer

Author: Paul Shao

a Python library that converts online google sheets into serializable tabular data that can be directly manipulated as Python lists

Version: beta 1.0.4

Get Started:

If you are using this library the first time, please follow the steps below to ensure you have the required libraries and dependencies installed:

1. Go to Google Developers Link for Sheets API and enable the Google Sheets API through your developer console (It doesn't matter which language for the API you are enabling it from).
2. Download the generated credentials.json file
3. Use the command pip show google-sheets-serializer to determine the location of the installed library
4. Go inside the main directory for serializer package, and put the credentials.json file there.

Basic Usages:

The serializer mainly makes use of 2 objects, Reader and Filter. A Reader is an object that performs the basic operation of reading in a google sheet given its spreadsheet ID and the name of the sheet.

• To find these two values for a given google sheet, follow the general guidelines below:
• For example, if I am currently using a spreadsheet, I should be able to get its ID by looking at the current link in my browser:
• The link should take the form of

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/<spreadsheetId>/edit#...

Where the placeholder <spreadsheetId> is the spreadsheet ID. The name of the sheet refers to the name of the current tab of the sheet that you are working on. That can be found usually at the bottom left of the google sheets application.

General Methods:

Here are some of the methods currently supported by this library:

1. Reader
   1. read_from_sheet(spreadsheetId, sheetName): takes in a spreadsheet ID and sheet name and returns a Reader object
2. Filter
   1. Note: the initialization of a Filter object requires a Reader object as an input, and you should generally load the Reader object with the sheets data by calling the method read_from_sheet before using Filter on top of it.
   2. num_cols(): number of columns
   3. num_rows(): number of rows
   4. int_values(): converts all data in the google sheet to be integers if possible
   5. float_values(): converts all data in the google sheet to be floating point numbers if possible
   6. col_names(): a list of all the column names
   7. values(): the data of the google sheet (without the column header)
   8. print_formatted(): prints out all the data in a row-major and aligned order
   9. map(f): applies the function f to all of the data section of the sheet
   10. filter(major_order, f, numerical): filter the google sheet by the predicate function f. Eliminating any row or column that contains at least 1 value that doesn't obey the predicate. Here are some more detailed specifications for each of the parameters:
       1. major_order: can take on values 0 or 1, 0 for row-major, and 1 for column-major
       2. f: the predicate function, should always return a boolean; by default f is set to always return True if not specified
       3. numerical: indicates whether the data needs to be pre-formatted. 0 for leaving it as it is; 1 for converting all data to integers; 2 for converting all data to floating point numbers
   11. reduce(major_order, f, numerical): reduce the google sheet by accumulating and combining cells using the function f. Here are the specifications for each of the parameters:
       1. major_order: can take on values 0 or 1, 0 for row-major, and 1 for column-major
       2. f: the combiner function, should take in 2 arguments (representing the values in 2 adjacent cells, either row-major or column-major)
       3. numerical: indicates whether the data needs to be pre-formatted. 0 for leaving it as it is; 1 for converting all data to integers; 2 for converting all data to floating point numbers