How to get the body from a Word DOCX document in Python

Extracting the data from the body portion of a DOCX file is just such an exciting process that I’m sure you can’t wait to spend your afternoon setting it up. Just kidding, I’m about to give you a shortcut that will deliver you from the tedium!

The API client that we need can be installed using pip install, as seen here.

pip install cloudmersive-convert-api-client

The next step is to call edit_document_docx_body from an API instance. This process is illustrated in the following example:

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.GetDocxBodyRequest() # GetDocxBodyRequest | Document input request
try:
# Get body from a Word DOCX document
api_response = api_instance.edit_document_docx_body(req_config)
pprint(api_response)
except ApiException as e:
print("Exception when calling EditDocumentApi->edit_document_docx_body: %s\n" % e)

Well that was easy. Go get yourself a coffee to celebrate all the boring work that you don’t have to do now.