This tutorial uses Anton Burnashev's excellent `gspread` Python package to read, write, and delete data from a Google Spreadsheet with just a few lines of code. To programmatically access the spreadsheet, a service account and OAuth2 credentials must be created from the Google API Console. The process involves creating a new project, enabling the Google Drive API, and granting the service account edit rights on the desired spreadsheet. With these credentials in place, Python can easily interact with the spreadsheet using `gspread` and `oauth2client`. The tutorial demonstrates how to extract data from the spreadsheet, insert, update, and delete rows, and provides additional information on the full range of functionality offered by `gspread`.