Expense Tracker is a tool that enables the easy and quick entry of receipts into a Google spreadsheet for personal finances. For my purposes, the data is sent to a spreadsheet in my personal Google Drive.

Install dependencies:

pip3 install gspread oauth2client pandas

Usage:

python3 client.py

In order to enable this tool for your own Google spreadsheet purposes, follow the steps outlined in this blog. After downloading the key in JSON format, name the JSON file "expense-tracker.json" and place it in this project directory. If you would like to use a different name for your JSON file, find the line:

self.creds = ServiceAccountCredentials.from_json_keyfile_name('expense-tracker.json', self.scope)

And replace expense-tracker.json with your JSON filename.

Note: The Google Cloud Platform has changed slightly since the writing of that blog post, so some exact steps may be inaccurate. The basic idea is to create a service account for the application, and generate a new key to download in JSON format.

To change the spreadsheet being edited, find the line:

self.sheet = self.client.open("Expenses").sheet1

Change the string "Expenses" to the name of your Google spreadsheet.