Training videos for learning VBA - SCRAPING WEBSITES

Excel VBA Part 47 - Browsing to Websites and Scraping Web Page

Posted by Andrew Gould on 14 November 2016

Scraping a web page in VBA involves getting a reference to an HTML document and then processing its elements to extract the useful parts and write them to another location in a readable format. This video shows you how to do that using both Internet Explorer and basic XML HTTP requests. You'll learn a bit about the Document Object Model, as well as how to identify HTML elements by name and by tag type. You'll also see how to loop through various collections of HTML elements and their children using an example involving exchange rate tables.

Excel VBA Part 48 - Scraping Multiple Web Pages

Posted by Andrew Gould on 17 November 2016

What's better than scraping one web page? Scraping lots of them with the same procedure, of couse! This video explains how to loop over multiple pages using Microsoft's HTML and XML object libraries. You'll learn about HTML tags and classes, the Document Object Model and how to loop over elements on a page.

Excel VBA Part 49 - Downloading Files from Websites

Posted by Andrew Gould on 21 November 2016

Excel VBA doesn't have a native method for downloading files from websites but you can declare an API function that will enable you to do this. This video takes you through the process of declaring the API function and using it in your code, along with a bunch of other useful techniques such as using folder pickers, creating folders with FileSystemObjects and opening a Windows Explorer window using the Shell function.