Hi experts -
I'm relatively new to python, but I have an requirement to automate getting a file from a WebLib server using an API.
The file I'm requesting from this sever is an excel spreadsheet (.xlsx).
I get a valid response back via an xml doc from the server.
In this xml file I get back, within a tag pair a very long string that is supposed to represent the .xlsx file I'm requesting.
My problem is, I don't know how to convert this string back into an .xlsx so that I can look at its content.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to convert this �string� back into an excel document?
Thanks
---------- Post updated 06-09-17 at 09:40 AM ---------- Previous update was 06-08-17 at 09:46 AM ----------
Does anyone have any insight on how to convert this "string" into an excel document in python?
I would be happy with a good website I can research on python soap/api binary downloads.
Thanks!
Without seeing it, we really can't tell what it is. It might be base64, possibly.
It's a very long string, between a pair of xml tags.
Here it is w/o the tags:
Any idea's what kind of data this is and how to convert back to excel?
Running it through base64 -d produces a file which, whatever it is, certainly isn't excel. It might contain one or more spreadsheets in each apparent 'workbook' section.
All the ASCII data it contains:
_rels/PK
_rels/.rels<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><Relationships xmlns="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/package/2006/relationships"><Relationship Id="rId1" Type="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/officeDocument" Target="xl/workbook.xml"/></Relationships>PK
xl/PK
xl/_rels/PK
xl/_rels/workbook.xml.rels<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><Relationships xmlns="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/package/2006/relationships"><Relationship Id="rId1" Type="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/worksheet" Target="worksheets/sheet1.xml"/><Relationship Id="rId2" Type="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/styles" Target="styles.xml"/></Relationships>PK
xl/workbook.xml<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><workbook xmlns="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/spreadsheetml/2006/main" xmlns:r="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships"><fileVersion appName="xl" lastEdited="5" lowestEdited="5" rupBuild="24816"/><workbookPr showInkAnnotation="0" autoCompressPictures="0"/><bookViews><workbookView xWindow="0" yWindow="0" windowWidth="25600" windowHeight="19020" tabRatio="500"/></bookViews><sheets><sheet name="Sheet1" sheetId="1" r:id="rId1"/></sheets></workbook>PK
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xl/worksheets/PK
xl/worksheets/sheet1.xml<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><worksheet xmlns="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/spreadsheetml/2006/main" xmlns:r="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships" xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006" xmlns:x14ac="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/spreadsheetml/2009/9/ac" mc:Ignorable="x14ac"><cols><col min="1" max="1" width="11" customWidth="1"/><col min="2" max="2" width="15" customWidth="1"/><col min="3" max="3" width="13" customWidth="1"/><col min="4" max="4" width="18" customWidth="1"/><col min="5" max="5" width="39" customWidth="1"/></cols><sheetData><row r="1"><c t="inlineStr" r="A1" s="2"><is><t>Select</t></is></c><c t="inlineStr" r="B1" s="2"><is><t>Contact Company</t></is></c><c t="inlineStr" r="C1" s="2"><is><t>Contact Phone</t></is></c><c t="inlineStr" r="D1" s="2"><is><t>Contact Person</t></is></c><c t="inlineStr" r="E1" s="2"><is><t>Contact Email</t></is></c></row><row r="2"><c t="inlineStr" r="A2"><is><t>Add Contact</t></is></c><c t="inlineStr" r="B2"><is><t>VERIZON</t></is></c><c t="inlineStr" r="C2"><is><t/></is></c><c t="inlineStr" r="D2"><is><t>Somavarapu Madhuri</t></is></c><c t="inlineStr" r="E2"><is><t>Madhuri.somavarapu3@verizonwireless.com</t></is></c></row></sheetData></worksheet>PK
[Content_Types].xml<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><Types xmlns="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/package/2006/content-types"><Default Extension="xml" ContentType="application/xml"/><Default Extension="rels" ContentType="application/vnd.openxmlformats-package.relationships+xml"/><Default Extension="jpeg" ContentType="image/jpeg"/><Override PartName="/xl/workbook.xml" ContentType="application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet.main+xml"/><Override PartName="/xl/worksheets/sheet1.xml" ContentType="application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.worksheet+xml"/><Override PartName="/xl/styles.xml" ContentType="application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.styles+xml"/></Types>PK
_rels/PK
_rels/.relsPK
xl/PK
xl/_rels/PK
xl/_rels/workbook.xml.relsPK
xl/workbook.xmlPK
xl/styles.xmlPK
xl/worksheets/PK
xl/worksheets/sheet1.xmlPK
[Content_Types].xmlPK
That's gotten me a lot further along then you can imagine.
What's the syntax of the command you ran, so that I can reproduce on my end?
base64 -d < inputfile > outputfile
If you don't have base64, try
openssl base64 -d < inputfile > outputfile
Which is some sort of binary file I don't recognize.
To get the pure text data out of it I did strings < outputfile > outputfile2
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Thanks much, I'm hoping with your input I'll get this figured out yet!
Thanks again!
I sneak-edited more in under you, take a look at the bit I added, the strings command