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Parse Google Drive spreadsheet data via python
'''
@desc Parse Google Drive spreadsheet data via python
@author Misha M.-Kupriyanov https://plus.google.com/104512463398531242371/
@link https://gist.github.com/3969255
'''
# Spreadsheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0Akgh73WhU1qHdFg4UmRhaThfUFNBaFR3N3BMVW9uZmc&output=html
import logging
import urllib2
import json
def getRowValue(row, format, column_name):
logging.info('getRowValue[%s]:%s' % (column_name, row))
if str(column_name) == '':
raise ValueError('column_name must not empty')
begin = row.find('%s:' % column_name)
logging.info('begin:%s' % begin)
if begin == -1:
return ''
begin = begin + len(column_name) + 1
end = -1
found_begin = False
for entity in format:
logging.info('checking:%s' % entity)
if found_begin and row.find(entity) != -1:
end = row.find(entity)
break
if entity == column_name:
found_begin = True
#check if last element
if format[len(format) -1 ] == column_name:
end = len(row)
else:
if end == -1:
end = len(row)
else:
end = end - 2
logging.info('%s:%s' % (column_name, row) )
#logging.info('speakertitle[%s]' % speaker_title )
#logging.info('%s:%s' % (column_name, row.find(column_name)))
# logging.info('%s - %s' % (begin, end))
value = row[begin: end].strip()
logging.info('%s[%s-%s]:[%s]' % (column_name, begin, end, value))
return value
# JSON Representation
url = 'https://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/list/0Akgh73WhU1qHdFg4UmRhaThfUFNBaFR3N3BMVW9uZmc/od6/public/basic?prettyprint=true&alt=json';
response = urllib2.urlopen(url)
html = response.read()
html = json.loads(html)
format = ['column1', 'column2', 'column3']
for entry in html['feed']['entry']:
row = entry['content']['$t'].encode('utf-8').strip()
column1 = column2 = column3 = ''
column1 = getRowValue(row, format, 'column1')
column2 = getRowValue(row, format, 'column2')
column3 = getRowValue(row, format, 'column3')
print 'column1:%s column2:%s column3:%s' % (column1, column2, column3)
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Hey! would you be able to help me? I'm trying to set up a discord bot that gathers all changes from my company's google sheets and sends appropriate notifications.
seems that I need to get that information https://developers.google.com/sheets/api/reference/rest/v4/UpdateValuesResponse but i'm not so sure how to connect it. What do you think?

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