Extracting Hyperlinks From Excel (.xlsx) with Python

Question

I have been looking at mostly the xlrd and openpyxl libraries for Excel file manipulation. However, xlrd currently does not support formatting_info=True for .xlsx files, so I can not use the xlrd hyperlink_map function. So I turned to openpyxl, but have also had no luck extracting a hyperlink from an excel file with it. Test code below (the test file contains a simple hyperlink to google with hyperlink text set to "test"):

import openpyxl

wb = openpyxl.load_workbook('testFile.xlsx')

ws = wb.get_sheet_by_name('Sheet1')

r = 0
c = 0

print ws.cell(row = r, column = c). value
print ws.cell(row = r, column = c). hyperlink
print ws.cell(row = r, column = c). hyperlink_rel_id

Output:

test

None

I guess openpyxl does not currently support formatting completely either? Is there some other library I can use to extract hyperlink information from Excel (.xlsx) files?

Answer 1

This is possible with openpyxl:

import openpyxl

wb = openpyxl.load_workbook('yourfile.xlsm')
ws = wb['Sheet1']
# This will fail if there is no hyperlink to target
print(ws.cell(row=2, column=1).hyperlink.target)

Answer 2

Starting from at least version openpyxl-2.4.0b1 this bug https://bitbucket.org/openpyxl/openpyxl/issue/152/hyperlink-returns-empty-string-instead-of was fixed. Now it's return for cell Hyperlink object:

hl_obj = ws.row(col).hyperlink  # getting Hyperlink object for Cell
#hl_obj = ws.cell(row = r, column = c).hyperlink This could be used as well.
if hl_obj:
    print(hl_obj.display)
    print(hl_obj.target)
    print(hl_obj.tooltip) # you can see it when hovering mouse on hyperlink in Excel
    print(hl_obj) # to see other stuff if you need