gsheet_experiment

Ping a route to increament counter in a google sheet.

Route: https://gsheet-experiments.herokuapp.com/ Google Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xrWKBZOEf4hWXlrA4RcPO7kOS-GK2K9qu8eVgYP61Y8/edit?usp=sharing

Fire up the given route and see the counter increasing in the google spreadsheet.

Installation

• Install the last commit of gspread https://github.com/burnash/gspread

pip install -e git+https://github.com/burnash/gspread#master#egg=gspread

Install flask and other dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

We require the lastest commits to read credentials from Dictionary. As of now (2020-10-24), this commit isn't part of the last release. See burnash/gspread#785

• To get Google service account creds, follow https://gspread.readthedocs.io/en/latest/oauth2.html#for-bots-using-service-account

• As specified in the document above, share your spreadsheet with the bot account

• Save the creds ot service_account.json file

• Install flask https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/1.1.x/installation/#installation

Local Developement

• Export credentials as environment variable

export GSHEETS_CREDS=$(cat service_account.json)

• Run the server

python main.py

Deployment on Heroku

• Create a new Heroku app
• Install Heroku commandline https://devcenter.heroku.com/categories/command-line
• Set the account creds as Heroku configs

heroku config:set GSHEETS_CREDS="$(cat service_account.json)"

• Push the lastest code to heroku

git push heroku main