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# 1  
Old 06-09-2017
Python soap and string to .xlsx conversion

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!
# 2  
Old 06-09-2017
Without seeing it, we really can't tell what it is. It might be base64, possibly.
# 3  
Old 06-09-2017
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?

Last edited by timj123; 06-09-2017 at 04:05 PM..
# 4  
Old 06-09-2017
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:

Code:
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_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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# 5  
Old 06-09-2017
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?
# 6  
Old 06-09-2017
Code:
base64 -d < inputfile > outputfile

If you don't have base64, try

Code:
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

Last edited by Corona688; 06-09-2017 at 04:05 PM..
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# 7  
Old 06-09-2017
Thanks much, I'm hoping with your input I'll get this figured out yet!

Thanks again!
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