Blog post explaining what problem this is meant to solve in more detail:<p><a href="http://blog.apps.npr.org/2014/04/21/introducing-copytext-py.html" rel="nofollow">http://blog.apps.npr.org/2014/04/21/introducing-copytext-py....</a>
gspread is a little-known Python module that uses the Google Spreadsheet API and offers a simple interface atop it. You don't even need to download the .xlsx file -- you can keep in sync with the file in real-time.<p><a href="https://github.com/burnash/gspread" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/burnash/gspread</a><p>I use it for some internal proj management tools at Parse.ly.
Another useful tool for working with spreadsheets in Javascript is SheetJS: <a href="https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xlsx" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xlsx</a>
There's <a href="https://github.com/nesquena/sheet_mapper" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/nesquena/sheet_mapper</a> too for Ruby.
It would be nice to mention that this is a wrapper around openpyxl: <a href="http://pythonhosted.org/openpyxl/" rel="nofollow">http://pythonhosted.org/openpyxl/</a>