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Connecting to Google Sheets with Python
14 points by benbreen
http://tinaja.computer/2017/10/27/gspread.html___________________________________________________________________
SwellJoe - 42 minutes ago
A couple weeks ago I helped my nephew with a project he was working
on using gspread. I haven't programmed in Python in years but was
able to make it all go in an hour or so of poking at the gspread
docs. It's pretty neat. I've often thought spreadsheets should be
more commonly used as the UI for software. Lots of business folks
have a good grasp of spreadsheets, but not of programmer-y or
database concepts. I dunno how I'd integrate spreadsheets into
anything I'm working on, but if I were doing enterprisey stuff, I'd
be trying to make it fit.
stephen-mw - 21 minutes ago
That?s funny you say that. One of my pet projects was using
google sheets to control SSH access with non-techies. It worked
surprisingly well.https://github.com/stephen-
mw/gdoc_ssh_manager/blob/test/REA...
orliesaurus - 33 minutes ago
Did you try stuff like airtable or maybe even use spreadsheets with
zapier? They "seem" pretty powerful alternatives