How to get to end of the worksheet for a very big document?

First of all, many thanks for writing this awesome library! It has made life so simple for me.

However, at this point I have an issue that I am not sure how to resolve. I have a document that is being updated every minute and therefore it is a quite big document. In order to append a new row every time an update happens, I am using the following code:

   all = worksheet.get_all_values()
   end_row = len(all) + 1

Here, end_row indicates the row# where I can add my data.

This code works, but the problem with this code is that when the sheet is big, get_all_values() takes a long time to run. The delay starts to add up pretty soon.

So my question is: is there a less time consuming way to get to the end of the document?

P.S. I tried using the row_count property, but that returns 1000 which is of no use because I want to get to the end where I can insert a new row, not the end of the document necessarily.

[WolfClaw009]

Hello @seemantadutta I know I am very late. I have recently started coding in Python and saw this question. The solution to this is print(len(worksheet.get_all_values())) This will give you the length of the list which will be equal to the number of rows in your spreadsheet.

[JoeCharlieH]

Create that new row in other worksheet, Which take no time and keep doing it for few entries and after that insert that worksheet data into your final sheet, like a batch process.

This will help to save time as code doesn’t have to initialize all the data.

Exactly, you can count non-blank cells within a full column with the Google Sheets core functions:

=COUNTA(A1:A)

This is a simple example that counts non-blank cells, but it also counts empty strings “” .