Sharepoint web services to edit existing list from desktop

Question

Perhaps I am not asking or searching for this correctly:

I want to have a desktop script (currently using python) that will update a list on a sharepoint site.

The current script reads various file shares, ftp sites and a ArcGIS database to determine which metadata files have been updated and published. The script then writes all these results to a Excel spreadsheet.

We would like to do the same thing, but keep the data in a Share Point list instead of a spreadsheet. We don't need to upload any files (which is what I keep running across in my search) but just update or add to a list.

We could care less about what language or tools we use, we just don't have access to any custom coding on the Share Point server.

Answer 1

You should be able to use the lists webservice on the Sharepoint server,

the url is normally:

 http://host/sitename/_vti_bin/lists.asmx

you are looking at the UpdateListItems webservice call. I don't know python but I use C# and work with sharepoint every day you can find a working example on MSDN on a Windows app to call the web service.