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Raspberry Pi Zero Cookbook

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Raspberry Pi Zero Cookbook

Overview of this book

The Raspberry Pi Zero, one of the most inexpensive, fully-functional computers available, is a powerful and revolutionary product developed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. The Raspberry Pi Zero opens up a new world for the makers out there. This book will give you expertise with the Raspberry Pi Zero, providing all the necessary recipes that will get you up and running. In this book, you will learn how to prepare your own circuits rather than buying the expensive add–ons available in the market. We start by showing you how to set up and manage the Pi Zero and then move on to configuring the hardware, running it with Linux, and programming it with Python scripts. Later, we integrate the Raspberry Pi Zero with sensors, motors, and other hardware. You will also get hands-on with interesting projects in media centers, IoT, and more.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Raspberry Pi Zero Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Using a Python script to upload data online to a Google spreadsheet interface


Creating CSV is great; you can pretty much import that into any spreadsheet or database. What if you just want to skip that step and push your Raspberry Pi Zero data directly to Google spreadsheets? With Google's API and Python libraries, you can securely send your data to a spreadsheet in your Google account.

Getting ready

If you don't have a Google account, you will definitely need one for this recipe. The Google Developer documentation for Getting Started will have the most up-to-date instructions on setting up your application for authentication, but we will skip through it here. You can always refer to https://developers.google.com/api-client-library/python/start/get_started if you hit an issue.

  1. First, go to the Google API Console located at https://console.developers.google.com/apis . When you click on Credentials, you will see a screen like this one:

  2. Click on Credentials and the Create credentials dropdown...