How to get rows and cells from an Excel XLSX spreadsheet in Python

Having all the right features to work with spreadsheets is key in this day and age. Working with XLSX files in Python, however, can be a real drag. So why set up a system yourself when you can access one that is already working via an API? Let’s look at this approach.

We will need our client installed using pip install, first.

pip install cloudmersive-convert-api-client

Our API now needs to be instantiated, which will in turn allow us to call edit_document_xlsx_get_rows_and_cells.

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))
input = cloudmersive_convert_api_client.GetXlsxRowsAndCellsRequest() # GetXlsxRowsAndCellsRequest | Document input request
try:
# Get rows and cells from a Excel XLSX spreadsheet, worksheet
api_response = api_instance.edit_document_xlsx_get_rows_and_cells(input)
pprint(api_response)
except ApiException as e:
print("Exception when calling EditDocumentApi->edit_document_xlsx_get_rows_and_cells: %s\n" % e)

This will take a GetXlsxRowsAndCellsRequest object, which takes these parameters:

{
  "InputFileBytes": "string",
  "InputFileUrl": "string",
  "WorksheetToQuery": {
    "Path": "string",
    "WorksheetName": "string"
  }
}

And it will then return your data in this sort of format:

{
  "Successful": true,
  "Rows": [
    {
      "Path": "string",
      "Cells": [
        {
          "Path": "string",
          "TextValue": "string",
          "CellIdentifier": "string",
          "StyleIndex": 0,
          "Formula": "string"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}