Is there a way to unmerge Google Sheets cells with gspread or some other Python library?

Question

gspread has this method for merging cells but I don't find anything for unmerging. I see there's a way to do this in JavaScript, though, but my project is in Python so I would really like to stick to it.

Answer 1

In that case, you can achieve your goal using batch_update method of gspread. The sample script is as follows.

Sample script:

client = gspread.authorize(credentials) # Here, please use your script.
spreadsheetId = "###" # Please set the Spreadsheet ID.
sheetName = "Sheet1" # Please set the sheet name.

spreadsheet = client.open_by_key(spreadsheetId)
requests = [
    {
        "unmergeCells": {
            "range": {"sheetId": spreadsheet.worksheet(sheetName).id}
        }
    }
]
spreadsheet.batch_update({"requests": requests})

• In this sample script, all merged cells of "Sheet1" in a Spreadsheet are unmerged.
• When you want to unmerge the specific merged cells, please use the gridrange. Ref

Note:

• This is a simple sample script. So please modify this for your actual situation.
• This sample script supposes that you have already been able to get and put values for Google Spreadsheet using Sheets API. Please be careful about this.

References:

• batch_update(body)
• UnmergeCellsRequest