I am struggling to write codes that find me the first empty row of a google sheet.
I am using gspread package from github.com/burnash/gspread
I would be glad if someone can help :)
I currently have just imported modules and opened the worksheet
scope = ['https://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds']
credentials = ServiceAccountCredentials.from_json_keyfile_name('ddddd-61d0b758772b.json', scope)
gc = gspread.authorize(credentials)
sheet = gc.open("Event Discovery")
ws = sheet.worksheet('Event Discovery')
I want to find row 1158 which is the first empty row of the worksheet with a function, which means everytime the old empty row is filled, it will find the next empty row See here
Click on the Filter icon at the top of any column, then click on Clear and select (Blanks).
gspread is a Python API for Google Sheets. Features: Google Sheets API v4. Open a spreadsheet by title, key or url. Read, write, and format cell ranges.
I solved this using:
def next_available_row(worksheet):
str_list = list(filter(None, worksheet.col_values(1)))
return str(len(str_list)+1)
scope = ['https://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds']
credentials = ServiceAccountCredentials.from_json_keyfile_name('auth.json', scope)
gc = gspread.authorize(credentials)
worksheet = gc.open("sheet name").sheet1
next_row = next_available_row(worksheet)
#insert on the next available row
worksheet.update_acell("A{}".format(next_row), somevar)
worksheet.update_acell("B{}".format(next_row), somevar2)
This alternative method resolves issues with the accepted answer by accounting for rows that may have skipped values (such as fancy header sections in a document) as well as sampling the first N columns:
def next_available_row(sheet, cols_to_sample=2):
# looks for empty row based on values appearing in 1st N columns
cols = sheet.range(1, 1, sheet.row_count, cols_to_sample)
return max([cell.row for cell in cols if cell.value]) + 1
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