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- Excel VBA Part 47.1 - Browsing to Websites and Scraping Web Page
- Excel VBA Part 47.2 - Scraping Website Tables and Clicking Links
- Excel VBA Part 47.3 - Internet Explorer vs XML HTTP Request
- Excel VBA Part 47.4 - Logging in to a Website with Windows Security
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- Excel VBA Part 48 - Scraping Multiple Web Pages
- Excel VBA Part 49 - Downloading Files from Websites
VBA - scraping websites videos | Excel VBA Part 47.3 - Internet Explorer vs XML HTTP Request
Posted by Andrew Gould on 03 June 2019
This video shows you how to use VBA to scrape websites using Internet Explorer and XML HTTP Requests. You'll learn how to reference the correct object libraries, how to create an XML HTTP Request and capture the response text. You'll compare the performance of the XML HTTP Request with Internet Explorer by scraping a website of gambling odds and parsing an HTML table, writing the results to a new Excel worksheet.
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Dear Andrew,
Has anything changed in that web-site (https://www.oddschecker.com.....) since you pasted this video?
Because no matter how I try to run the macro using IE or HTTP Request result is the same (slightly different but).
IE gives me following messages:
Can’t reach this page
•Make sure the web address https://www.oddschecker.com is correct
•Search for this site on Bing
•Refresh the page
More information
Error Code: INET_E_DOWNLOAD_FAILURE
Can’t connect securely to this page
This might be because the site uses outdated or unsafe TLS security settings. If this keeps happening, try contacting the website’s owner.
Your TLS security settings aren’t set to the defaults, which could also be causing this error.
Try this:
•Go back to the last page
and HTTP Request shows me that funny msgbox:
Run-time error '-2146697208(800c0008)':
The download of the specified resource has failed.
I tryed to use my code that I wrote watching your lesson or when I ran your code that I downloaded from your web-site.
Is anything wrong with my machine or there's something else I do not understand.
Dear Andrew,
Thatk you so much
Sincerily yours
Alexander
Hi Alexander,
I'm not sure why you're receiving this error message but it seems that you're not the only person to experience it. There are some possible solutions listed in these forums
https://www.tenforums.com/browsers-email/90236-microsoft-edge-tls-security.html
Hopefully one of those will help!