How to get a specific table by index in a Word DOCX document in Python

Extracting tables from DOCX files — certainly no one’s idea of a good evening’s entertainment, to put it mildly. What do you say we just skip the whole mess and get this done almost instantly?

We may begin by using pip install for bringing in our API client for document editing and conversions.

pip install cloudmersive-convert-api-client

And now we can create an API instance and use it to call edit_document_docx_get_table_by_index. This will require a GetDocxTableByIndexRequest object, which contains our input file path and table index.

from __future__ import print_function
import time
import cloudmersive_convert_api_client
from cloudmersive_convert_api_client.rest import ApiException
from pprint import pprint
# Configure API key authorization: Apikey
configuration = cloudmersive_convert_api_client.Configuration()
configuration.api_key['Apikey'] = 'YOUR_API_KEY'
# Uncomment below to setup prefix (e.g. Bearer) for API key, if needed
# configuration.api_key_prefix['Apikey'] = 'Bearer'
# create an instance of the API class
api_instance = cloudmersive_convert_api_client.EditDocumentApi(cloudmersive_convert_api_client.ApiClient(configuration))
req_config = cloudmersive_convert_api_client.GetDocxTableByIndexRequest() # GetDocxTableByIndexRequest | Document input request
try:
# Get a specific table by index in a Word DOCX document
api_response = api_instance.edit_document_docx_get_table_by_index(req_config)
pprint(api_response)
except ApiException as e:
print("Exception when calling EditDocumentApi->edit_document_docx_get_table_by_index: %s\n" % e)

All done!