Google Sheets

Delete the Google Sheets spreadsheet using Python

Learn how to delete a Google Sheet using Python and the gspread library. This recipe covers the steps to authenticate with Google and delete a specified spreadsheet programmatically. Follow these instructions to efficiently manage and automate the deletion of Google Sheets directly from your Python applications, ensuring proper handling and removal of unwanted documents.

Required packages

You need below packages to use the code generated by recipe. All packages are automatically installed in MLJAR Studio.

gspread>=6.1.2

Interactive recipe

You can use below interactive recipe to generate code. This recipe is available in MLJAR Studio.

In the below recipe, we assume that you have following variables available in your notebook:

  • gc (type Client)

Python code

# Python code will be here

Code explanation

  1. Delete the spreadsheet.