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Google Sheets

Overview

Medium article: Automate Google Sheets CRUD Automation

This article covers setting up a Google Sheets API that will allow python to perform CRUD operations — Create, Read, Update, and Delete — directly from your python script to your google spreadsheet.

This process is handy if you need to automate reports, sync live data, or managing spreadsheets programmatically, this tutorial will give you the tools to make your Google Sheets dynamically update in real time with Python!

Use Cases

  • Automated reports and dashboards — Fetch and update live data for business reports.
  • Stock and crypto price tracking — Automatically log and update real-time financial data.
  • Inventory management — Keep track of product stock levels dynamically.
  • Task and project management — Use Google Sheets as a simple task tracker with automatic updates.
  • News and web scraping logs — Extract and store live news headlines or scraped web data.
  • API data logging — Pull in weather, sales, or user analytics from APIs and store in Sheets.
  • Student and employee records — Automate updates to attendance, grades, or work logs.
  • Database alternative — Use Google Sheets as a lightweight database for simple applications.
  • Form submission processing — Automate handling of Google Forms data in real-time.

Steps

  1. Go to Google Cloud Console
  2. gsheets-453804-c772b0c9403a.json

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