Google Spreadsheets Python API v4

Simple interface for working with Google Sheets.

Features:

• Open a spreadsheet by title, key or URL.
• Read, write, and format cell ranges.
• Sharing and access control.
• Batching updates.

Installation

pip install gspread

Requires Python 3.7+

Basic Usage

1. Create credentials in Google API Console

2. Start using gspread

import gspread

gc = gspread.service_account()

# Open a sheet from a spreadsheet in one go
wks = gc.open("Where is the money Lebowski?").sheet1

# Update a range of cells using the top left corner address
wks.update('A1', [[1, 2], [3, 4]])

# Or update a single cell
wks.update('B42', "it's down there somewhere, let me take another look.")

# Format the header
wks.format('A1:B1', {'textFormat': {'bold': True}})

v5.12 to v6.0 Migration Guide

Upgrade from Python 3.7

Python 3.7 is end-of-life. gspread v6 requires a minimum of Python 3.8.

Change Worksheet.update arguments

The first two arguments (values & range_name) have swapped (to range_name & values). Either swap them (works in v6 only), or use named arguments (works in v5 & v6).

As well, values can no longer be a list, and must be a 2D array.

- file.sheet1.update([["new", "values"]])
+ file.sheet1.update([["new", "values"]]) # unchanged

- file.sheet1.update("B2:C2", [["54", "55"]])
+ file.sheet1.update([["54", "55"]], "B2:C2")
# or
+ file.sheet1.update(range_name="B2:C2", values=[["54", "55"]])

Change colors from dictionary to text

v6 uses hexadecimal color representation. Change all colors to hex. You can use the compatibility function gspread.utils.convert_colors_to_hex_value() to convert a dictionary to a hex string.

- tab_color = {"red": 1, "green": 0.5, "blue": 1}
+ tab_color = "#FF7FFF"
file.sheet1.update_tab_color(tab_color)

Switch lastUpdateTime from property to method

- age = spreadsheet.lastUpdateTime
+ age = spreadsheet.get_lastUpdateTime()

Silence warnings

In version 5 there are many warnings to mark deprecated feature/functions/methods. They can be silenced by setting the GSPREAD_SILENCE_WARNINGS environment variable to 1

More Examples

Opening a Spreadsheet

# You can open a spreadsheet by its title as it appears in Google Docs
sh = gc.open('My poor gym results') # <-- Look ma, no keys!

# If you want to be specific, use a key (which can be extracted from
# the spreadsheet's url)
sht1 = gc.open_by_key('0BmgG6nO_6dprdS1MN3d3MkdPa142WFRrdnRRUWl1UFE')

# Or, if you feel really lazy to extract that key, paste the entire url
sht2 = gc.open_by_url('https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Bm...FE&hl')

Creating a Spreadsheet

sh = gc.create('A new spreadsheet')

# But that new spreadsheet will be visible only to your script's account.
# To be able to access newly created spreadsheet you *must* share it
# with your email. Which brings us to…

Sharing a Spreadsheet

sh.share('otto@example.com', perm_type='user', role='writer')

Selecting a Worksheet

# Select worksheet by index. Worksheet indexes start from zero
worksheet = sh.get_worksheet(0)

# By title
worksheet = sh.worksheet("January")

# Most common case: Sheet1
worksheet = sh.sheet1

# Get a list of all worksheets
worksheet_list = sh.worksheets()

Creating a Worksheet

worksheet = sh.add_worksheet(title="A worksheet", rows="100", cols="20")

Deleting a Worksheet

sh.del_worksheet(worksheet)

Getting a Cell Value

# With label
val = worksheet.get('B1').first()

# With coords
val = worksheet.cell(1, 2).value

Getting All Values From a Row or a Column

# Get all values from the first row
values_list = worksheet.row_values(1)

# Get all values from the first column
values_list = worksheet.col_values(1)

Getting All Values From a Worksheet as a List of Lists

list_of_lists = worksheet.get_values()

Getting a range of values

Receive only the cells with a value in them

>>> worksheet.get_values("A1:B4")
[['A1', 'B1'], ['A2']]

Receive a lists of lists matching the requested size regardless if values are empty or not

>>> worksheet.get_values("A1:B4", maintain_size=True)
[['A1', 'B1'], ['A2', ''], ['', ''], ['', '']]

Finding a Cell

# Find a cell with exact string value
cell = worksheet.find("Dough")

print("Found something at R%sC%s" % (cell.row, cell.col))

# Find a cell matching a regular expression
amount_re = re.compile(r'(Big|Enormous) dough')
cell = worksheet.find(amount_re)

Finding All Matched Cells

# Find all cells with string value
cell_list = worksheet.findall("Rug store")

# Find all cells with regexp
criteria_re = re.compile(r'(Small|Room-tiering) rug')
cell_list = worksheet.findall(criteria_re)

Updating Cells

# Update a single cell
worksheet.update('B1', 'Bingo!')

# Update a range
worksheet.update('A1:B2', [[1, 2], [3, 4]])

# Update multiple ranges at once
worksheet.batch_update([{
    'range': 'A1:B2',
    'values': [['A1', 'B1'], ['A2', 'B2']],
}, {
    'range': 'J42:K43',
    'values': [[1, 2], [3, 4]],
}])

Documentation

Documentation: https://gspread.readthedocs.io/

Ask Questions

The best way to get an answer to a question is to ask on Stack Overflow with a gspread tag.

Contributors

List of contributors

How to Contribute

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Report Issues

Please report bugs and suggest features via the GitHub Issues.

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Contribute code

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