I've got a Google Sheet with students names (columns A
and B
) and some value in the column next to it (column C
). I'd like to test each value in turn and write to that row's (column D
) if the test resolves to True
.
My code so far:
from __future__ import print_function
import httplib2
import os
from apiclient import discovery
from oauth2client import client
from oauth2client import tools
from oauth2client.file import Storage
# Don't know what this is for
try:
import argparse
flags = argparse.ArgumentParser(parents=[tools.argparser]).parse_args()
except ImportError:
flags = None
# If modifying these scopes, delete your previously saved credentials
# at ~/.credentials/sheets.googleapis.com-python-quickstart.json
SCOPES = 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/spreadsheets.readonly'
CLIENT_SECRET_FILE = 'client_secret.json'
APPLICATION_NAME = 'Google Sheets API'
# just copied code from Google's Dev guide
def get_credentials():
"""Gets valid user credentials from storage.
If nothing has been stored, or if the stored credentials are invalid,
the OAuth2 flow is completed to obtain the new credentials.
Returns:
Credentials, the obtained credential.
"""
home_dir = os.path.expanduser('~')
credential_dir = os.path.join(home_dir, '.credentials')
if not os.path.exists(credential_dir):
os.makedirs(credential_dir)
credential_path = os.path.join(credential_dir,
'sheets.googleapis.com-python-quickstart.json')
store = Storage(credential_path)
credentials = store.get()
if not credentials or credentials.invalid:
flow = client.flow_from_clientsecrets(CLIENT_SECRET_FILE, SCOPES)
flow.user_agent = APPLICATION_NAME
if flags:
credentials = tools.run_flow(flow, store, flags)
else: # Needed only for compatibility with Python 2.6
credentials = tools.run(flow, store)
print('Storing credentials to ' + credential_path)
return credentials
# PROBLEM IS IN THIS METHOD
def main():
# Hope Google doesn't change all this API stuff and make us redo:
credentials = get_credentials()
http = credentials.authorize(httplib2.Http())
discoveryUrl = ('https://sheets.googleapis.com/$discovery/rest?'
'version=v4')
service = discovery.build('sheets', 'v4', http=http,
discoveryServiceUrl=discoveryUrl)
# Fake URI of our sheet
spreadsheetId = '5lksdfusdlfkjkj886kJUNKssdff'
# retrieve data works
rangeName = 'Sheet1!A2:D70'
result = service.spreadsheets().values().get(
spreadsheetId=spreadsheetId, range=rangeName).execute()
values = result.get('values', [])
if not values:
print('No data found.')
else:
for row in values:
print('Checking on: %s %s' % (row[0], row[1]))
# PROBLEM... can't seem
if row[2] == "Some arbitrary condition":
# Even trying to hardcode a range doesn't work
# I'd like to reference the coordinates of this row
result = service.spreadsheets().values().update(
spreadsheetId=spreadsheetId, range='Sheet1!D64',
body="can you see me?").execute()
print(result)
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()