Extracting Hyperlinks From Excel (.xlsx) with Python

Question

I have been looking at mostly the xlrd and openpyxl libraries for Excel file manipulation. However, xlrd currently does not support formatting_info=True for .xl

Answer 1

A successful solution I've worked with is to install unoconv on the server and implement a method that invokes this command line tool via the subprocess module to convert the file from xlsx to xls since hyperlink_map.get() works with xls.

Answer 2

This is possible with openpyxl:

import openpyxl

wb = openpyxl.load_workbook('yourfile.xlsm')
ws = wb['Sheet1']
# This will fail if there is no hyperlink to target
print(ws.cell(row=2, column=1).hyperlink.target)

Answer 3

In my experience getting good .xlsx interaction requires moving to IronPython. This lets you work with the Common Language Runtime (clr) and interact directly with excel'

http://ironpython.net/

import clr
clr.AddReference("Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel")
import Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel as Excel
excel = Excel.ApplicationClass()

wb = excel.Workbooks.Open('testFile.xlsx')
ws = wb.Worksheets['Sheet1']

address = ws.Cells(row, col).Hyperlinks.Item(1).Address

Answer 4

For direct manipulation of Excel files it's also worth looking at the excellent XlWings library.

Answer 5

If instead of just .hyperlink, doing .hyperlink.target should work. I was getting a 'None' as well from using just ".hyperlink" on the cell object before that.

Answer 6

FYI, the problem with openpyxl is an actual bug.

And, yes, xlrd cannot read the hyperlink without formatting_info, which is currently not supported for xlsx.