#!/usr/bin/python import re, urllib, urllib2 class GoogleSpreadsheetsClient(object): def __init__(self, email, password): super(GoogleSpreadsheetsClient, self).__init__() self.email = email self.password = password def _get_auth_token(self, email, password, source, service): url = "https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin" params = { "Email": email, "Passwd": password, "service": service, "accountType": "HOSTED_OR_GOOGLE", "source": source } req = urllib2.Request(url, urllib.urlencode(params)) return re.findall(r"Auth=(.*)", urllib2.urlopen(req).read())[0] def get_auth_token(self): source = type(self).__name__ return self._get_auth_token(self.email, self.password, source, service="wise") def get_spreadsheet(self, spreadsheet_id, gid=0, export_format="csv"): url_format = "https://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/download/spreadsheets/Export?key=%s&exportFormat=%s&gid=%i" headers = { "Authorization": "GoogleLogin auth=" + self.get_auth_token(), "GData-Version": "3.0" } req = urllib2.Request(url_format % (spreadsheet_id, export_format, gid), headers=headers) return urllib2.urlopen(req) if __name__ == "__main__": import getpass import csv email = "" # (your email here) password = getpass.getpass() spreadsheet_id = "" # (spreadsheet id here) # Create a client object gs = GoogleSpreadsheetsClient(email, password) # Request a file-like object containing the spreadsheet's contents csv_file = gs.get_spreadsheet(spreadsheet_id) # Parse as CSV and print the rows for row in csv.reader(csv_file): print ", ".join(row)