Step 1 - Create a New Google Cloud Platform Project

● To begin, open the Google Cloud Console. Enter your Google account credentials to
login.
● Once you are logged in, you will land at the Dashboard page where you will be able to
view a summary of your existing projects. Of course, if this is your first time using the
Google Cloud Console, you will not have any existing projects.
● Click on the main menu (hamburger) icon in the upper-left corner of the screen and
select IAM & Admin > Create a Project from the drop-down menu.

● Enter a name for the new project . You will also see a Project ID in a small font directly
underneath the project Name input field. The Project ID is created automatically based
on the project name that you select. You can click on Edit to change the Project ID.
However, keep in mind that once the new project is created, the Project ID cannot be
changed.
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Optionally, enter a location for the project. The location specifies the organization or
folder to which the project will belong. As a new user, the default value of this field may
display No organization and does not need to be changed. If you used a Google
account that is managed, by your employer for example, when logging in, the Location
field may display a different value.
● Click on Create to create the project.
● You will be re-directed back to the Dashboard page. In a few minutes, you should see
the newly created project listed under the Project Info window.
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 Step 2 - Enable the Google Sheets API
Now that you have created a new Google Cloud Platform project, you need to enable the
Google Sheets API for the project.

● From the Dashboard page, click on the main menu icon in the upper-left corner again
and select APIs & Services > Library.

● From the Library page, scroll down to the Google Workspace section and click on
Google Sheets API.
● Once on the Google Sheets API page, click on Enable.
● The Google Sheets API is now enabled for the new Google Cloud Platform project
created in Step 1.
 Step 3 - Create a Service Account
A Python application that wants to interact with the Google Sheets API must be authenticated
and authorized to access the resources that the API supports. Google provides different options
for the authentication and authorization mechanisms depending on the needs of the developer.
In this step, we will choose to configure a new Service Account for authentication and
authorization purposes.

Step 3a - Create a New Service Account

● From the Dashboard page, click on the main menu icon in the upper-left corner again
and select APIs & Services > Credentials.
● On the Credentials page, click on Manage Service Accounts under Service
Accounts.
● You will be directed to the Service Accounts page where you need to click on Create
Service Account.

Email address:materate-service-account@schoolverification.iam.gserviceaccount.com
● Enter a new name for the service account. You can choose any name that you would
like. Notice that as you enter your chosen service account name, an associated
Service account ID will be automatically generated in the Service account ID field.
Additionally, an e-mail address matching the service account ID will also be
automatically generated. For example, if you entered some new service account in
the name field, you might see a strange looking e-mail address ending in
.iam.gserviceaccount.com like
some-new-service-account@young-home-460928.iam.gserviceaccount.co
m as the service account e-mail. Copy this e-mail address since you will use it later when
connecting a Python application to a Google Sheets spreadsheet via the Google Sheets
API.
● Once you have entered a name for the service account, click on Create And
Continue.

● Click on the Select a role dropdown menu from the Grant this service account
access to project section. Look for the Basic option on the left side of the menu and
 hover over it. Then, click on Editor from the right-side of the menu. The Editor role
will allow a Python application using this service account to read and write to a Google
Sheets spreadsheet that it is interacting with via the Google Sheets API.

● Click on Done to create the new service account.

Step 3b - Create a New Key for the Service Account

● From the Service Accounts page, click on the options menu icon (i.e. the icon with
three vertical dots) under the Actions label for the new service account. When the menu
opens, click on Manage Keys.
● On the Keys page, click on Add Key and then select Create new key.

● The key format should already be set to JSON when the Create private key modal
opens. Click on Create. A new private key will be generated and a JSON file download
with the new key should automatically start. Note the location of the JSON file with the
private key value as it will be needed later when connecting to the Google Sheets API
from a Python application.
 Step 4 - Install Required Google Libraries for Python
A Python application needs to import certain Google libraries for Python to successfully
authenticate with and interact with the Google Sheets API.

Step 4a - Install the Google API Python Client Library

The Google Client Libraries provide access to Google Cloud APIs for a variety of languages. In
this tutorial, we will install the Google API Python Client Library.

● You can install the Google API Python Client Library using the following command:

pip install google-cloud

Step 4b - Install the Google Authentication Libraries

The Google Authentication libraries are used for authentication with Google Workspace APIs,
and in this particular case, the Google Sheets API.

● First, install the Google Authentication Library for Python using the following command:

pip install google-auth

● Second, install the Google Authentication OAuth Library for Python using the following
command:
 pip install google-auth-oauthlib

The required Python libraries have now been installed.

Step 5 - Configuring a Test Application in Python

Step 5a - Create a New Google Sheets Spreadsheet

● In Google Sheets, create a new spreadsheet and give it a title such as My New
Google Sheets Spreadsheet.
● For this simple test, the new spreadsheet does not need to have any data in it.

Step 5b - Share the New Google Sheets Spreadsheet With Your

● Click on the green Share button in the upper right corner of the new Google Sheets
spreadsheet.
● When the dialog opens, copy the Google Cloud Service Account e-mail address from
Step 3a into the Add people and groups field.
 ● Uncheck the Notify people option and click Send.

Step 5c - Record the URL Identifier for the New Google Sheets
Spreadsheet

● Your new Google Sheets spreadsheet will have a URL like:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/8VaaiCuZ2q09IVndzU54s1RtxQreAxgFNaUPf9su5hK0
/edit#gid=0

● Record the portion of the URL string starting after d/ and ending before /edit.
● In other words, you would write down
8VaaiCuZ2q09IVndzU54s1RtxQreAxgFNaUPf9su5hK0 using this example.
 Step 5d - Configure the Test Application in Python

● To keep things simple, put the key.json file generated in Step 3b in the same directory
where you will create the test application in Python.
● Build the test application as follows:

from google.oauth2 import service_account

from googleapiclient.discovery import build

spreadsheet_id = "1bSBMfb34NmgHV6ktAwkcHiNAsfQncnm0qn42W37E3JM"

# Load credentials

credentials =
service_account.Credentials.from_service_account_file("verification/
schoolverification-70f76ddce33a.json",
scopes=["https://www.googleapis.com/auth/spreadsheets"])

service = build("sheets", "v4", credentials=credentials)

# Data to be added

new_data = [

["John", "Doe", "[email protected]", "123456"],

["Jane", "Doe", "[email protected]", "789012"],

# Specify the range where you want to append the data

range_to_append = "Sheet1!A1"
# Append data to the spreadsheet

request = service.spreadsheets().values().append(

spreadsheetId=spreadsheet_id,

range=range_to_append,

body={"values": new_data},

valueInputOption="USER_ENTERED",

response = request.execute()

# Print the response

print("Rows added successfully.")

We can see data has been updated to Sheet.