What scope is needed to use the findReplace function in GoogleSheets API v4? - google-sheets-api

Question

I want to use the findReplace request in the Google Sheets APIv4. I set up my Scope and request as defined in the Google quickstart guide for the Sheets API in Python and have confirmed that the API can talk to my spreadsheet.
https://developers.google.com/sheets/api/reference/rest/v4/spreadsheets/request#FindReplaceRequest
SCOPES = ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/spreadsheets']
SHEET_ID = myspreadsheetid
creds = None
store = file.Storage('sheets_token.json')
if not creds or not creds.valid:
if creds and creds.expired and creds.refresh_token:
creds.refresh(Request())
else:
flow = client.flow_from_clientsecrets('client_2_https.json', SCOPES)
creds = tools.run_flow(flow, store, http=Http(disable_ssl_certificate_validation=True))
with open('sheets_token.pickle', 'wb') as token:
pickle.dump(creds, token)
adminService = build('sheets', 'v4', http=creds.authorize(Http(disable_ssl_certificate_validation=True)))
def findreplace_request(find, replacement):
findreplace_request = {}
findreplace_request['find'] = find
findreplace_request['replacement'] = replacement
findreplace_request['matchCase'] = True
findreplace_request['matchEntireCell'] = True
findreplace_request['searchByRegex'] = False
findreplace_request['includeFormulas'] = False
findreplace_request['sheetId'] = mysheetid
allSheets = False
request = {}
request['findReplace'] = findreplace_request
return request
body = {}
body.setdefault('requests',[]).append(findreplace_request('#mydate#','TODAY'))
response = adminService.spreadsheets().batchUpdate(spreadsheetId=SHEET_ID, body=my_request).execute()
I clearly set a scope to read and write to/from Google Sheets, but I do not understand why I get an error that says the scope is not set.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "C:\Users\wnh659\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\googleapiclient\_helpers.py", line 130, in positional_wrapper
return wrapped(*args, **kwargs)
File "C:\Users\wnh659\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\googleapiclient\http.py", line 851, in execute
raise HttpError(resp, content, uri=self.uri)
googleapiclient.errors.HttpError: <HttpError 400 when requesting https://sheets.googleapis.com/v4/spreadsheets/1Sx0CJJo-b6Z6JUaQEQ6cJ3Yxtjv3z9BtHN9EHl0-0jU:batchUpdate?alt=json return
ed "Invalid requests[0].findReplace: scope not set.">

Answer 1

You want to use the findReplace request of Sheets API using python.
You have already been able to modify Spreadsheet using Sheets API.
If my understanding is correct, how about this modification? I think that the reason of the error of Invalid requests[0].findReplace: scope not set. is that the scope for replacing the value is not defined. In your request body, the properties of range, sheetId and allSheets are not used. So how about the following modification?
Modified script:
From:
def findreplace_request(find, replacement):
findreplace_request = {}
findreplace_request['find'] = find
findreplace_request['replacement'] = replacement
findreplace_request['matchCase'] = True
findreplace_request['matchEntireCell'] = True
findreplace_request['searchByRegex'] = False
findreplace_request['includeFormulas'] = False
sheetId = mysheetid
allSheets = False
request = {}
request['findReplace'] = findreplace_request
return request
To:
def findreplace_request(find, replacement):
findreplace_request = {}
findreplace_request['find'] = find
findreplace_request['replacement'] = replacement
findreplace_request['matchCase'] = True
findreplace_request['matchEntireCell'] = True
findreplace_request['searchByRegex'] = False
findreplace_request['includeFormulas'] = False
findreplace_request['sheetId'] = mysheetid # Added
allSheets = False
request = {}
request['findReplace'] = findreplace_request
return request
In this modification, find is searched from the sheet of mysheetid. If you want to search the value from all sheets, please use the property of allSheets instead of sheetId.
Note:
If the value of property is boolean, when the property is not used, the value is used as False of the default value.
In your script, I think that the following modification can be also worked.
body = {}
body.setdefault('requests',[]).append(findreplace_request('#mydate#','TODAY'))
response = adminService.spreadsheets().batchUpdate(spreadsheetId=SHEET_ID, body=body).execute()
Reference:
FindReplaceRequest
If I misunderstood your question and this was not the result you want, I apologize.