Python dropbox - Opening spreadsheets
Question: I was testing with the dropbox provided API for python..my target was to read
a Spreadsheet in my dropbox without downloading it to my local storage.

    
    
    import dropbox
    dbx = dropbox.Dropbox('my-token')
    print dbx.users_get_current_account()
    fl = dbx.files_get_preview('/CGPA.xlsx')[1] # returns a Response object
    

After the above code, calling the `fl.text()` method gives an HTML output
which shows the preview that would be seen if opened by browser. And the data
can be parsed.

My query is, if there is a built-in method of the SDK for getting any
particular info from the spreadsheet, like the data of a row or a
cell...preferrably in json format...I previously used butterdb for extracting
data from a google drive spreadsheet...is there such functionality for
dropbox?....could not understand by reading the docs: <http://dropbox-sdk-
python.readthedocs.io/en/master/>


Answer: No, the Dropbox API doesn't offer the ability to selectively query parts of a
spreadsheet file like this without downloading the whole file, but we'll
consider it a feature request.

