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You can do that with SpreadServe[1] now. Instead of Google docs it uses real Excel .xls spreadsheets and supports VBA and XLL addins. It turns your spreadsheets into async scriptable servers. There are Python & Java APIs.

[1] http://spreadserve.com

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Is this open source anywhere or just closed beta?

Some OSS here: https://github.com/SpreadServe Sign up for the beta here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!aboutgroup/spreadserve AWS hosted instance: http://54.148.111.119:8888 Docs: http://spreadserve.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

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