How to set formatting with Google sheets API for python? - google-sheets-api

Question

In theory this was answered in Remove only formatting on a cell range selection with google spreadsheet API but for the life of me I cannot get it to work.
I want to write a function that clears the formatting of a given Google Sheet. Here is what I think is the right way to do it based on the above:
def clear_sheet_formatting():
spreadsheetID = "1pQoBG0q6f0Ni6yMiC9BSIXVLGMmvBRc07pGXqMA2VtA"
global service_spreadsheets
open_connection()
body = {
"requests": [
{
"updateCells": {
"range": {
"sheetId": "Sheet1",
},
"fields": "userEnteredFormat"
}
}
]
}
func = lambda: service_spreadsheets.batchUpdate(spreadsheetId=spreadsheetID,
body=body).execute()
result = execute_query(func)
The sheet itself is very boring:
But I am getting the following error:
WARNING:root:Google API call failed with the following error, sleeping 20 seconds: Invalid value at 'requests[0].update_cells.range.sheet_id' (TYPE_INT32), "Sheet1"
What am I doing wrong? How do I make this work?

Answer 1

I perform a test regarding this, use this sample code to see if that helps.
I'm currently using this scopes:
SCOPES = ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file',
'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive',
'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/spreadsheets' ]
And the sample code I'm using is:
try:
service = build('sheets', 'v4', credentials=creds)
# Call the Sheets API and the sheet ID for "Sheet1"
# the ID is not the name of the sheet but a number.
call_sheet_with_format = service.spreadsheets().get(spreadsheetId=SPREADSHEET_ID).execute()
sheets_with_format = call_sheet_with_format.get('sheets', '')
sheet_id = sheets_with_format[0].get("properties", {}).get("sheetId", 0)
request_body = {
'requests': [
{
'updateCells': {
'range': {
'sheetId': sheet_id
},
'fields':'userEnteredFormat'
}
}
]
}
request = service.spreadsheets().batchUpdate(spreadsheetId=SPREADSHEET_ID, body=request_body)
response = request.execute()
except HttpError as err:
print(err)
Or you can get the sheetId directly in the Google Sheet:
And remove this part of the
sheets_with_format = call_sheet_with_format.get('sheets', '')
sheet_id = sheets_with_format[0].get("properties", {}).get("sheetId", 0)