Using openpyxl to read file from memory
excel, python
Solution
In the docs for `load_workbook` it says:
#:param filename: the path to open or a file-like object
..so it was capable of it all the time. It reads a path or takes a file-like object. I only had to convert my file-like object returned by `urlopen`, to a `bytestream` with:
from io import BytesIO
wb = load_workbook(filename=BytesIO(input_excel.read()))
and I can read every piece of data in my Google-spreadsheet.
Problem
I downloaded a google-spreadsheet as an object in python. How can I use openpyxl use the workbook without having it to save to disk first? I know that xlrd can do this by: ``` book = xlrd.open_workbook(file_contents=downloaded_spreadsheet.read()) ``` with "downloaded_spreadsheet" being my downloaded xlsx-file as an object. Instead of xlrd, I want to use openpyxl because of better xlsx-support(I read). I'm using this so far... ``` #!/usr/bin/python import openpyxl import xlrd # which to use..? import re, urllib, urllib2 class Spreadsheet(object): def __init__(self, key): super(Spreadsheet, self).__init__() self.key = key class Client(object): def __init__(self, email, password): super(Client, self).__init__() self.email = email self.password = password def _get_auth_token(self, email, password, source, service): url = "https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin" params = { "Email": email, "Passwd": password, "service": service, "accountType": "HOSTED_OR_GOOGLE", "source": source } req = urllib2.Request(url, urllib.urlencode(params)) return re.findall(r"Auth=(.*)", urllib2.urlopen(req).read())[0] def get_auth_token(self): source = type(self).__name__ return self._get_auth_token(self.email, self.password, source, service="wise") def download(self, spreadsheet, gid=0, format="xls"): url_format = "https://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/download/spreadsheets/Export?key=%s&exportFormat=%s&gid=%i" headers = { "Authorization": "GoogleLogin auth=" + self.get_auth_token(), "GData-Version": "3.0" } req = urllib2.Request(url_format % (spreadsheet.key, format, gid), headers=headers) return urllib2.urlopen(req) if __name__ == "__main__": email = "........@gmail.com" # (your email here) password = '.....' spreadsheet_id = "......" # (spreadsheet id here) # Create client and spreadsheet objects gs = Client(email, password) ss = Spreadsheet(spreadsheet_id) # Request a file-like object containing the spreadsheet's contents downloaded_spreadsheet = gs.download(ss) # book = xlrd.open_workbook(file_contents=downloaded_spreadsheet.read(), formatting_info=True) #It works.. alas xlrd doesn't support the xlsx-funcionality that i want... #i.e. being able to read the cell-colordata.. ``` I hope anyone can help because I'm struggling for months to get the color-data from given cell in google-spreadsheet. (I know the google-api doesn't support it..)