VBA - scraping websites videos | Excel VBA Part 46 - Querying Web Pages with Query Tables

Good afternoon WiseOwl,

Thank you for the amazing videos on scraping websites. I am trying to scrape data from a website and have run into a problem. I followed your video: "Querying Web Pages using Query Tables" and keep recieving the following response in the output:

"Your browser is unsupported. upgrade your browser"

I am currently running chrome and I believe I am running the most up to date version but I am verifying that as we speak. Any help on this would be amazing. Thank you all, I have copy and pasted my code below for any questions.

Option Explicit

Sub Import_Weather_Data()

Dim ws As Worksheet
Dim qt As QueryTable
Dim URL As String

URL = "https://flightaware.com/resources/airport/DNYO/weather"

    
Set qt = wsWeather_Data.QueryTables("YolaWeather")

With qt
    .Connection = "URL;" & URL
    .RefreshOnFileOpen = True
    .Name = "YolaWeather"
    .WebFormatting = xlWebFormattingRTF
    .WebSelectionType = xlAllTables
    '.WebTables = "2"
    
    .Refresh
End With

End Sub

Hello, I followed the video step by step but I can't find the way to get to click on this "Switch To Old" on

the site https://tipsterarea.com/

Can you help me? Thank you

Hi. I am trying to connect this portal. first I can not connect withh Data>Get and Transform>from web

secondly how can tell vba if internet connection lost or for any reason couldnt get data from link, ignore any error and ask me do you want try again

SourceDataFile > http://members.tsetmc.com/tsev2/excel/MarketWatchPlus.aspx?d=0

Connection >   OLEDB;Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;User ID=Admin;Data Source=C:\Users\Nima\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\INetCache\Content.MSO\518F1202.xlsx;Mode=Share Deny Write;Extended Properties="HDR=YES;";Jet OLEDB:System database="";Jet OLEDB:Registry Path="";Jet OLEDB:Engine Type=37;Jet OLEDB:Database Locking Mode=0;Jet OLEDB:Global Partial Bulk Ops=2;Jet OLEDB:Global Bulk Transactions=1;Jet OLEDB:New Database Password="";Jet OLEDB:Create System Database=False;Jet OLEDB:Encrypt Database=False;Jet OLEDB:Don't Copy Locale on Compact=False;Jet OLEDB:Compact Without Replica Repair=False;Jet OLEDB:SFP=False;Jet OLEDB:Support Complex Data=False;Jet OLEDB:Bypass UserInfo Validation=False;Jet OLEDB:Limited DB Caching=False;Jet OLEDB:Bypass ChoiceField Validation=False

Connection name > MarketWatchPlus

thanks

Andrew,

Quick question here:

Assuming I have some data (10 rows) on Sheet1 via a query, if I execute this:

Sheet1.Range("A1").ListObject.QueryTable.Refresh BackgroundQuery:=False

will it clear the the entire contents of Sheet1 first before populating it?

My concern is if the webpage which the query is fetching from has been updated / changed and now only contains fewer than 10 rows (say only 3 rows), I don't want the query to simply grab those 3 rows and paste onto Range("A1") (and leaving the old rows 4 to 10 data still on the sheet).

Thanks

Andrew,

Do you know if it's possible to delete date from a worksheet but still preserving the query behind it?

Hi,

If the table on a webpage contains 100 records, yet only the first 50 is shown on the first webpage and the remaining on the second webpage, how can I adapt the code so it brings back the full 100 records onto my worksheet?

Thanks

I have followed your code and produced this, which works perfectly:

Sub ImportWebPage()

    Dim qt As QueryTable
    Dim URL As String
   
    URL = "SomeWebPage"
   
    Set qt = Sheet1.QueryTables.Add(Connection:="URL;" & URL, Destination:=Sheet1.Range("A1"))
   
    With qt
   
        .RefreshOnFileOpen = True
   
        .Name = "SomeName"
       
        .WebFormatting = xlWebFormattingRTF
       
        .WebSelectionType = xlSpecifiedTables
       
        .WebTables = "1"
       
        .Refresh
   
    End With
   
End Sub

The problem is that I have additional code running afterwards but the code needs to run AFTER the code above has refreshed.

Adding Wait or DoEvents hasn't helped.

How can I ensure the web page has completely refreshed before I continue with the next part of the code?

Thanks

Hi,

What can we do If the URL does not include the specific structure to concatenate the parameters and select specific values from a table? For example the URL for Google Finance bellow:

https://www.google.com/search?stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAA...q=finance&tbm=fin#wptab=s:H4sIA...

Thanks in advance for the assistance.

I am curious as to getting to a web page that requires a log in, in my case I am attempting to retrieve data from my online brokerage account. Primarily my watch lists and maybe a couple of other tables that I can reference in the Excel workbook.

After watching several of your tutorials I have a basic understanding of VBA (and growing). HTML is completely beyond my abilities, therefore, I am attempting to watch the videos again an adapt them to my specific instance.

While this isn't really required, it is an attempt to keep learning Excel and VBA.

Thank you for all of the great lessons.