Open an excel from http website using xlrd

问题

I trying to open an excel file from web using xlrd, in Python 3.5.4.

import requests
import xlrd
import urllib

link='http://www.bla.com/bla.xlsx'
request = urllib.request.urlretrieve(link) 
workbook = xlrd.open_workbook(request)  

I'm getting this error.

TypeError: invalid file: ('0xlxs', <http.client.HTTPMessage object at 0x04600590>)

Anyone have a hint?

Thanks!

回答1:

The urlretrieve returns a tuple, not the url content.

urllib.request.urlretrieve(url, filename=None, reporthook=None, data=None)

Returns a tuple (filename, headers) where filename is the local file name under which the object can be found, and headers is whatever the info() method of the object returned by urlopen() returned (for a remote object).

import requests
import xlrd
import urllib

link = 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SheetJS/test_files/a9c6bbb161ca45a077779ecbe434d8c5d614ee37/AutoFilter.xls'
file_name, headers = urllib.request.urlretrieve(link)
print (file_name)
workbook = xlrd.open_workbook(file_name)
print (workbook)

回答2:

Something like this might work.

import urllib2

req = urllib2.Request('http://www.bla.com/bla.xlsx')
response = urllib2.urlopen(req)
workbook = xlrd.open_workbook(response.read())

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46437357/open-an-excel-from-http-website-using-xlrd