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

I was looking to load a file from an URL and here is what I came up with:

util:

from openpyxl import load_workbook
from io import BytesIO
import urllib

def load_workbook_from_url(url):
    file = urllib.request.urlopen(url).read()
    return load_workbook(filename = BytesIO(file))

usage:

import openpyxl_extended

book = openpyxl_extended.load_workbook_from_url('https://storage.googleapis.com/pnbx-cdn/pen-campaign/campaigner-template-fr.xlsx')