Getting Google Spreadsheet CSV into A Pandas Dataframe

Question

I uploaded a file to Google spreadsheets (to make a publically accessible example IPython Notebook, with data) I was using the file in it's native form could be read into a Pandas Dataframe. So now I use the following code to read the spreadsheet, works fine but just comes in as string,, and I'm not having any luck trying to get it back into a dataframe (you can get the data)

import requests
r = requests.get('https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ak1ecr7i0wotdGJmTURJRnZLYlV3M2daNTRubTdwTXc&output=csv')
data = r.content

The data ends up looking like: (1st row headers)

',City,region,Res_Comm,mkt_type,Quradate,National_exp,Alabama_exp,Sales_exp,Inventory_exp,Price_exp,Credit_exp\n0,Dothan,South_Central-Montgomery-Auburn-Wiregrass-Dothan,Residential,Rural,1/15/2010,2,2,3,2,3,3\n10,Foley,South_Mobile-Baldwin,Residential,Suburban_Urban,1/15/2010,4,4,4,4,4,3\n12,Birmingham,North_Central-Birmingham-Tuscaloosa-Anniston,Commercial,Suburban_Urban,1/15/2010,2,2,3,2,2,3\n

The native pandas code that brings in the disk resident file looks like:

df = pd.io.parsers.read_csv('/home/tom/Dropbox/Projects/annonallanswerswithmaster1012013.csv',index_col=0,parse_dates=['Quradate'])

A "clean" solution would be helpful to many to provide an easy way to share datasets for Pandas use! I tried a bunch of alternative with no success and I'm pretty sure I'm missing something obvious again.

Just a Update note The new Google spreadsheet has a different URL pattern Just use this in place of the URL in the above example and or the below answer and you should be fine here is an example:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/177_dFZ0i-duGxLiyg6tnwNDKruAYE-_Dd8vAQziipJQ/export?format=csv&id

see solution below from @Max Ghenis which just used pd.read_csv, no need for StringIO or requests...

Answer 1

Seems to work for me without the StringIO:

test = pd.read_csv('https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/' + 
                   '0Ak1ecr7i0wotdGJmTURJRnZLYlV3M2daNTRubTdwTXc' +
                   '/export?gid=0&format=csv',
                   # Set first column as rownames in data frame
                   index_col=0,
                   # Parse column values to datetime
                   parse_dates=['Quradate']
                  )
test.head(5)  # Same result as @TomAugspurger

BTW, including the ?gid= enables importing different sheets, find the gid in the URL.