How to get styles from an Excel XLSX spreadsheet or worksheet in Python

By the end of this article, all of your prayers about retrieving style information from Excel spreadsheets will have been answered.

To grease the wheels, we will be employing an API function that’s going to help immensely. To use it, we will need to install its client, like so:

pip install cloudmersive-convert-api-client

Now we can instance our API, which we will follow with a call for edit_document_xlsx_get_styles:

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.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)

And that wraps things up nicely. Soon after making the request, we will be given back our response, which includes this set of information:

{
"Successful": true,
"Styles": [
{
"StyleID": "string",
"Path": "string",
"Bold": true,
"Italic": true,
"Underline": true,
"FontSize": "string",
"FontFamily": "string"
}
]
}