How to extract the url in hyperlinks from a docx file using python

Question

I\'ve been trying to find out how to get urls from a docx file using python, but failed to find anything, i\'ve tried python-docx, and python-docx2txt, but python-docx only

Answer 1

I'm late to this party, but if you want something that pulls all the links out of .docx files and makes a spreadsheet of them (or returns a list of them), I have a script that might do that for you. It includes both the URL and the linked text, and you can feed it a whole folder if you want.

https://github.com/Colin-Fredericks/hx-py/blob/master/XML_utilities/GetWordLinks.py

It uses BeautifulSoup and UnicodeCSV, both of which you can also grab from that same repo. Runs in Python3. Instructions at the top of the file. Handles non-ascii characters. Only tested on Mac and Ubuntu so far. Excel does not reliably import Unicode CSVs, though Google Drive does. Offer void() where prohibited.

Answer 2

def iter_hyperlink_rels(rels):
   for rel in rels:
      if rels[rel].reltype == RT.HYPERLINK:
         yield rels[rel]      

This would remove the error.

Answer 3

you can use wps save as .hml file,then operate file

Answer 4

I solved it using the following code to print the hyperlink content from docx

from docx import Document
from docx.opc.constants import RELATIONSHIP_TYPE as RT

document = Document('test.docx')
rels = document.part.rels

def iter_hyperlink_rels(rels):
    for rel in rels:
        if rels[rel].reltype == RT.HYPERLINK:
            yield rels[rel]._target      

print(iter_hyperlink_rels(rels)

Answer 5

I am a beginner on Python and have an assignment to use Python to change each hyperlink in a .docx document. Thanks to Kiran's code which gave me hints to do a few guess, trial and errors and finally get it working. Here is the code I have and like to share with other beginners.

# python to change docx URL hyperlinks:
### see: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40475757/how-to-extract-the-url-in-hyperlinks-from-a-docx-file-using-python

from docx import Document
from docx.opc.constants import RELATIONSHIP_TYPE as RT

print(" This program changes the hyperlinks detected in a word .docx file \n")

docx_file=input(" Pls input docx filename (without .docx): ")

document = Document(docx_file + ".docx")

rels = document.part.rels

for rel in rels:
   if rels[rel].reltype == RT.HYPERLINK:
      print("\n Origianl link id -", rel, "with detected URL: ", rels[rel]._target)
      new_url=input(" Pls input new URL: ")
      rels[rel]._target=new_url

out_file=docx_file + "-out.docx"

document.save(out_file)

print("\n File saved to: ", out_file)

Thank you, Lapyiu Ho