How do I automatically pull data from a website to Excel?

Can VBA do web scraping?

I have a macro that scrapes a website and saves the data to a spreadsheet. It works fine, but I need to make it so that it scrapes a specific website. For example, I need to scrape the website but I need to do it for all of the teams. I was thinking about using VBA and using a For Each loop to go through the teams and scrape the data for each team, but I'm not sure if that's possible. Is there a way to do this? If it is possible, could someone point me in the right direction? I've never used VBA before, so any help is greatly appreciated.

You could use the HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse classes to interact with the site. The following is a simple example of how to use them. It should be enough to get you started.

Can you use a macro to pull data from a website?

This is a good way to scrape data if it works.

However, this is tricky because websites are moving their content very fast and you might need to use JS instead of a real macro. For a basic example you could have a list of 100 links that each have a single attribute of "onclick". You could then go through each one of those links, get the attribute and see if that is what you want to use.

Here is a link to the Google Dev Wiki for more info on scrapes using macros. Google Scraper Library. There are libraries available that will do this for you. For example: and some more. I would recommend Selenium. Here's a tutorial with examples: It uses Firefox by default, so it will be the easiest to install. I am using it myself.

How do I automatically pull data from a website to Excel?

Response from StackOverflow: I'm sure there are many approaches here on how to do it. Here is what I have so far and it works. But it has to be done manually, which is not ideal.

Sub GetData(). Dim IE As Object. Set IE = CreateObject("winHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1")
IE.Open "GET", "",
False. IE.send Dim data As Object. Set data = IE.ResponseText Dim cells As Object. Dim cell As Object. 'xlcell is empty. Set xlcell = ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(1, 1)
'Copy everything into the xlcell. For Each cell In data.item.Elements
If cell.value = "new" Then xlcell.Value = cell.value
End If. If cell.value = "usernames" Then Set cells = cell.Elements For Each cell In cells. xlcell.Value = cells.Value
Next cell. End Sub. Here's the formula for the first cell: =QUERY(Contents of C1;"Select A where B='new");"select Col1"). The =QUERY is a formula which will return the first row of the range of data. In the example above, it's the first row of the range in C1:C.

There's an overload of QUERY that takes a range of data so you can get the values for all your cells with a single formula. This is a little more sophisticated (lazy) approach but will still bring back only the new subscriber names for each first row of your returned data.