Read a Google Docs spreadsheet document from Python.

gdata_read.py

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# Credits: this script is based on an example from Michael Richman (@mrwoofster)
# available originally here http://mrwoof.tumblr.com/post/1004514567/using-google-python-api-to-get-rows-from-a-google
#
# Requirements: sudo pip install gdata
#
# Description: this script assume that you have a spreadsheet formatted like this:
# FirstName   - LastName    - Telephone
# John        - Doe         - 123446788
#
####################################################################################

import gdata.service
import gdata.spreadsheet
import gdata.spreadsheet.service
import gdata.spreadsheet.text_db
import logging
import socket

gd_client = gdata.spreadsheet.service.SpreadsheetsService()

# Set the email to your Google account email
gd_client.email = '[email protected]'

# Set the password to your Google account password. Please note that if you have 
# enabled the 2-steps authentication in Google you will have to generate a 
# password for this script.
gd_client.password = '******************'

try:                    
    gd_client.ProgrammaticLogin()
except socket.sslerror, e:
    logging.error('Spreadsheet socket.sslerror: ' + str(e))

# key: is the "key" value that you see in the url bar of the browser once you 
# open a Google Docs spreadsheet
key = '**************************************************'

# This is the worksheet ID: the default name of the first sheet is "od6"
wksht_id = 'od6'

try:
    feed = gd_client.GetListFeed(key, wksht_id)
except gdata.service.RequestError, e:
    logging.error('Spreadsheet gdata.service.RequestError: ' + str(e))
except socket.sslerror, e:
    logging.error('Spreadsheet socket.sslerror: ' + str(e))

for row_entry in feed.entry:
    record = gdata.spreadsheet.text_db.Record(row_entry=row_entry)
    print "%s,%s,%s" % (record.content['firstname'], record.content['lastname'], record.content['telephone'])

Pretty sure this API is no longer valid (its 3+ years old).