Download a spreadsheet from Google Drive / Workspace using Python

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Can you produce a Python example of how to download a Google Sheets spreadsheet given its key and worksheet ID (gid)? I can't.

I've scoured versions 1, 2 and 3 of the API. I'm having no luck, I can't figure out their compilcated ATOM-like feeds API, the gdata.docs.service.DocsService._DownloadFile private method says that I'm unauthorized, and I don't want to write an entire Google Login authentication system myself. I'm about to stab myself in the face due to frustration.

I have a few spreadsheets and I want to access them like so:

username = 'mygooglelogin@gmail.com'
password = getpass.getpass()

def get_spreadsheet(key, gid=0):
    ... (help!) ...

for row in get_spreadsheet('5a3c7f7dcee4b4f'):
    cell1, cell2, cell3 = row
    ...

Please save my face.

Update 1: I've tried the following, but no combination of Download() or Export() seems to work. (Docs for DocsService here)

import gdata.docs.service
import getpass
import os
import tempfile
import csv

def get_csv(file_path):
  return csv.reader(file(file_path).readlines())

def get_spreadsheet(key, gid=0):
  gd_client = gdata.docs.service.DocsService()
  gd_client.email = 'xxxxxxxxx@gmail.com'
  gd_client.password = getpass.getpass()
  gd_client.ssl = False
  gd_client.source = "My Fancy Spreadsheet Downloader"
  gd_client.ProgrammaticLogin()

  file_path = tempfile.mktemp(suffix='.csv')
  uri = 'http://docs.google.com/feeds/documents/private/full/%s' % key
  try:
    entry = gd_client.GetDocumentListEntry(uri)

    # XXXX - The following dies with RequestError "Unauthorized"
    gd_client.Download(entry, file_path)

    return get_csv(file_path)
  finally:
    try:
      os.remove(file_path)
    except OSError:
      pass
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13 Answers
user_18161380

Downloading a spreadsheet from google doc is pretty simple using sheets.

You can follow the detailed documentation on

https://pypi.org/project/gsheets/

or follow the below-given steps. I recommend reading through the documentation for better coverage.

  1. pip install gsheets

  2. Log in to the Google Developers Console with the Google account whose spreadsheets you want to access. Create (or select) a project and enable the Drive API and Sheets API (under Google Apps APIs).

  3. Go to the Credentials for your project and create New credentials > OAuth client ID > of type Other. In the list of your OAuth 2.0 client IDs click Download JSON for the Client ID you just created. Save the file as client_secrets.json in your home directory (user directory).

  4. Use the following code snippet.

    from gsheets import Sheets
    sheets = Sheets.from_files('client_secret.json')
    print(sheets) # will ensure authenticate connection
    
    s = sheets.get("{SPREADSHEET_URL}")
    print(s) # will ensure your file is accessible 
    
    s.sheets[1].to_csv('Spam.csv', encoding='utf-8', dialect='excel') # will download the file as csv
user_92317180

(Mar 2019, Python 3) My data is usually not sensitive and I use usually table format similar to CSV.

In such case, one can simply publish to the web the sheet and than use it as a CSV file on a server.

(One publishes it using File -> Publish to the web ... -> Sheet 1 -> Comma separated values (.csv) -> Publish).

import csv
import io
import requests

url = "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/<GOOGLE_ID>/pub?gid=0&single=true&output=csv"  # you can get the whole link in the 'Publish to the web' dialog
r = requests.get(url)
r.encoding = 'utf-8'
csvio = io.StringIO(r.text, newline="")
data = []
for row in csv.DictReader(csvio):
    data.append(row)
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