[jotux]

>which they were doing by hand every month

I would assume they just installed python on whatever machine they were originally using to hand-generate reports and the job of that person now is to just run the python script and wait for it to finish.

[tyingq]

Google's AppEngine would likely be free or extremely low cost in this situation. Gspread appears to work there fine: https://github.com/burnash/gspread/issues/39