Find cell by value in Google Sheets using Python

Learn how to efficiently search for specific values in Google Sheets using Python and the gspread library. This recipe covers finding single or all instances of a value within a worksheet, retrieving the matching cells, and printing their exact row and column locations. Perfect for automating data retrieval and analysis tasks in your Google Sheets projects.

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:

worksheet (type Worksheet)

Python code

# Python code will be here

Code explanation

Find the cells and save them as a variable.
Print their location.

Google Sheets cookbook

Code recipes from Google Sheets cookbook.

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