How to add a nested list with gspread?

Question

Can someone help me please with implementation of a nested list via gspread? Screenshot of what i want to do.

Answer 1

I believe your goal and your current situation as follows.

• You want to create a dropdown list in a cell.

  • From your following sample image and "a nested list" in your question, I understood like this.

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• You want to achieve this using gspread of python.

• You have already been able to get and put values for Google Spreadsheet using Sheets API.

In this case, I think that it is required to use the batchUpdate method.

Sample script:

In this sample script, please use your script for retrieving credentials of client = gspread.authorize(credentials) . And please set the variables. When you run this script, the dropdown list is created in the cell "A1" of "Sheet1" in spreadsheetId . The dropdownlilst is from your sample image.

client = gspread.authorize(credentials)
spreadsheetId = "###" # Please set the Spreadsheet ID.
sheetName = "Sheet1" # Please set the sheet ID.

spreadsheet = client.open_by_key(spreadsheetId)
sheetId = spreadsheet.worksheet(sheetName).id
body = {
    "requests": [
        {
            "updateCells": {
                "range": {
                    "sheetId": sheetId,
                    "startRowIndex": 0,
                    "endRowIndex": 1,
                    "startColumnIndex": 0,
                    "endColumnIndex": 1
                },
                "rows": [
                    {
                        "values": [
                            {
                                "dataValidation": {
                                    "condition": {
                                        "values": [
                                            {
                                                "userEnteredValue": "help"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "userEnteredValue": "me"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "userEnteredValue": "please"
                                            }
                                        ],
                                        "type": "ONE_OF_LIST"
                                    },
                                    "showCustomUi": True
                                }
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ],
                "fields": "dataValidation"
            }
        }
    ]
}
spreadsheet.batch_update(body)

Result:

When above script is run, the following result is obtained.

Note:

• This sample script supposes that you have already been able to get and put values for Google Spreadsheet using Sheets API. Please be careful this.

References:

• batch_update(body)
• Method: spreadsheets.batchUpdate
• UpdateCellsRequest

Answer 2

If you just want a drop down list that you can edit manually, you can do it with no code. Here are the steps:

#1 Select the cell you want the list to be, then go to Data > Data Validation:

#2 Select "List of Items" under criteria:

#3 Then type in your values, separated by a comma:

#4 Press save, and click the carrot to see your drop down list.

Answer 3

Was looking for a convenient way to the same and found https://github.com/robin900/gspread-formatting .

Here is the part where Data Validation rules are described: https://github.com/robin900/gspread-formatting#getting-and-setting-data-validation-rules-for-cells-and-cell-ranges

To install run pip install gspread-formatting . Hope that helps!