如何让XLRD读取XLSX单元格中的超链接？

Question

This is not a duplicate although the issue has been raised in this forum in 2011 Getting a hyperlink URL from an Excel document , 2013 Extracting Hyperlinks From Excel (.xlsx) with Python and 2014 Getting the URL from Excel Sheet Hyper links in Python with xlrd ; there is still no answer. After some deep dive into the xlrd module, it seems the Data_sheet.hyperlink_map.get((row, col)) item trips because "xlrd cannot read the hyperlink without formatting_info, which is currently not supported for xlsx" per @alecxe at Extracting Hyperlinks From Excel (.xlsx) with Python . Question: has anyone has made progress with extracting URLs from hyperlinks stored in an excel file. Say, of all the customer data, there is a column of hyperlinks. I was toying with the idea of dumping the excel sheet as an html page and proceed per usual scraping (file on local drive). But that's not a production solution. Supplementary: is there any other module that can extract the url from a .cell(row,col).value() call on the hyperlink-cell. Is there a solution in mechanize? Many thanks.

Answer 1

I had the same problem trying to get the hyperlinks from the cells of a xlsx file. The work around I came up with is simply converting the Excel sheet to xls format, from which I could manage to get the hyperlinks withount any trouble, and once finished the editing, I formatted it back to the original xlsx file.

I don't know if this should work for your specific needs, or if the change of format implies some consecuences I am not aware of, but I think it's worth a try.