How to extract metadata from docx file using Python?

Question

How would I extract metadata (e.g. FileSize, FileModifyDate, FileAccessDate) from a docx file?

Answer 1

You could use python-docx. python-docx has a method core_properties you can utilise. This method gives 15 metadata attributes such as author, category, etc.
See the below code to extract some of the metadata into a python dictionary:

import docx

def getMetaData(doc):
    metadata = {}
    prop = doc.core_properties
    metadata["author"] = prop.author
    metadata["category"] = prop.category
    metadata["comments"] = prop.comments
    metadata["content_status"] = prop.content_status
    metadata["created"] = prop.created
    metadata["identifier"] = prop.identifier
    metadata["keywords"] = prop.keywords
    metadata["last_modified_by"] = prop.last_modified_by
    metadata["language"] = prop.language
    metadata["modified"] = prop.modified
    metadata["subject"] = prop.subject
    metadata["title"] = prop.title
    metadata["version"] = prop.version
    return metadata

doc = docx.Document(file_path)
metadata_dict = getMetaData(doc)