Automating Google Sheets API

Approach

The common approach is:

• create a Google Cloud project
• enable Google Sheets API
• create a Service Account
• share the spreadsheet with the service account email

Popular libraries

• gspread
• google-api-python-client

Minimal example (gspread)

gspread_basic.py

import gspread
 
# Requires a service account JSON key file.
# client = gspread.service_account(filename="service_account.json")
# sheet = client.open("My Sheet").sheet1
# sheet.update("A1", "Hello from Python")

Notes

• Never commit service account JSON keys to git.
• Prefer environment variables or secret managers.