Dropdown Parser

Have you ever found yourself in the midst of trying to programmatically extract dropdown values from a Word Document for stakeholders?

If not, consider yourself a lucky person! If so, you've likely scoured StackOverflow and python-docx documentation to no avail.

Well, fear no more! Introducing dropdown_parser, a Python CLI package that is designed to extract and export dropdown values from Word Docs!

Installation

pip3 install git+https://github.com/StephenODea54/dropdown-parser.git

Usage Examples

Documentation

dropdown_parser --help

Output to CSV

dropdown_parser my_file.docx

# Outputs to my_file.csv

or

dropdown_parser my_file.docx -o csv

# Outputs to my_file.csv

Output to JSON

dropdown_parser my_file.docx -o json

# Outputs to my_file.json

Output to TXT

dropdown_parser my_file.docx -o txt

# Outputs to my_file.txt

Output to XLSX

dropdown_parser /path/to/word/doc -o xlsx


# Outputs to my_file.xlsx

Development Setup

Prerequisites

The following needs to be installed on your local environment:

• poetry
• pytest
• pre-commit
• black

TODO: Add Docker for local dev environment

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/StephenODea54/dropdown-parser.git

2. Install dependencies:

poetry install

3. Enable pre-commit hooks:

pre-commit install

Licensing

Stephen O'Dea - odeastephen1@gmail.com

Distributed under the MIT license. See LICENSE for more information.

Contributing

1. Fork repo (https://github.com/StephenODea54/dropdown-parser/fork)
2. Create a feature branch (git checkout -b feature/my-cool-feature)
3. Commit changes (git commit -m "Added my-cool-feature")
4. Push to branch (git push origin feature/my-cool-feature)
5. Create a new pull request