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Edited to add: mere days after I posted this, Quip added built-in support for spreadsheets. So…this is no longer useful. Oh well.
Looks over your recently-edited Quip documents. For each doc with "Tabular" in the name, find the first table in the document, save that table's data as a .TSV file (import format for Spreadsheets). Nice for the case in which several folks want to collaborate on gathering data "in the field" on their phones, but you eventually want to crunch that data in a spreadsheet.
#!/usr/bin/python
#
# Copyright 2014 Larry Hosken
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"""Retrieves quip pages, saves tables as .tsv"""
# Along with this file, you'll also need token.py and quip.py :
import token # one-line token.py that says TOKEN='1234adsf' , but using token
# from https://quip.com/api/reference#authentication-personal
import quip # copy https://github.com/quip/quip-api/blob/master/python/quip.py
import csv
import xml.etree.cElementTree
import xml.sax.saxutils
def main():
client = quip.QuipClient(access_token=token.TOKEN)
fetch_tables(client)
def fetch_tables(client):
threads = client.get_recent_threads(count=20)
for key, thread in threads.items():
munge_thread(thread, client)
def munge_thread(thread, client):
title = thread["thread"]["title"]
sanitized_title = ''.join([c for c in title if c.isalnum()])
if not "html" in thread: return
if not "tabular" in sanitized_title.lower(): return
# Parse the document
tree = client.parse_document_html(thread["html"])
for el in tree.iter('table'):
table_el = el
break
else:
print 'doc %s named "tabular" but has no table?'
return
csvfile = open(sanitized_title + '.tsv', 'wb')
csvwriter = csv.writer(csvfile, delimiter='\t')
for tr_el in table_el.iter('tr'):
row = []
for td_el in tr_el.iter('th'):
t = ''
for i in td_el.itertext(): t += i
row.append(t.strip())
if row: csvwriter.writerow(row)
for tr_el in table_el.iter('tr'):
row = []
for td_el in tr_el.iter('td'):
t = ''
for i in td_el.itertext(): t += i
row.append(t.strip())
if row: csvwriter.writerow(row)
html = unicode(xml.etree.cElementTree.tostring(tree))
# Strip the <html> tags that were introduced in parse_document_html
html = html[6:-7]
document_file_name = sanitized_title + ".html"
with open(document_file_name, "w") as document_file:
document_file.write(html.encode("utf-8"))
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()