Using openpyxl to read file from memory

Question

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 c

Answer 1

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.