How to Get Cell Styles in Excel Documents using Python

Using just a few lines of Python code, we can easily retrieve all the cell styles defined in a single Excel document.

To make this process simple, quick and scalable, we’ll be calling a free API using Python code examples.

We can start by installing the client SDK with pip install:

pip install cloudmersive-convert-api-client

Next, we can add the imports and include code to call the function (including our Excel file path in the input_filevariable to perform the cell style retrieval operation):

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'



# create an instance of the API class
api_instance = cloudmersive_convert_api_client.EditDocumentApi(cloudmersive_convert_api_client.ApiClient(configuration))
input = cloudmersive_convert_api_client.GetXlsxStylesRequest() # GetXlsxStylesRequest | Document input request

try:
    # Get styles from a Excel XLSX spreadsheet, worksheet
    api_response = api_instance.edit_document_xlsx_get_styles(input)
    pprint(api_response)
except ApiException as e:
    print("Exception when calling EditDocumentApi->edit_document_xlsx_get_styles: %s\n" % e)

To authorize our API call, we’ll just need a free Cloudmersive API key, which will allow us to make up to 800 API calls per month with no additional commitments.

That’s all there is to it — now we can easily retrieve cell styles from any Excel document using ready-to-run Python code.