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

If you want to do it in Excel, you can use VBA for a quick fix or PowerQuery for a more elegant solution.

With VBCreate a new module and paste in the following code (requires Excel 2010): Sub PullData(). Dim ieApp As New SHDocVw.InternetExplorer ieApp.Visible = True ieApp.navigate "" While ieApp.Busy Or ieApp.readyState <> READYSTATECOMPLETE
Application.document.getElementById("email").Value = "example@example.com"
IeApp.getElementById("fname").Value = "Test"
IeApp.getElementById("pwd").Value = "test"

IeApp.Quit End Sub. Change the name of your module from PullData to w3schools. With PowerQuery: Create a new Query and paste in the following code (requires Excel 2016): Source = Web.Page(Web.Contents("")),
#"Converted to Table" = Table.FromList(Source, each (r) => List.ToDictionary(r, )),
#"Renamed Columns" = Table.RenameColumns(#"Converted to Table",}), #"Inserted Attribute" = Table.AddColumn(#"Renamed Columns", "ID", each Text.

Is VBA good for web scraping?

Hi guys.

I'm in the process of building a web scraper in VBA and I was wondering what people thought about using VBA for web scraping. I'm asking as I've been looking at the methods and I'd just like to get some general views.

First of all, is this even a good idea? What do you think the advantages/disadvantages are and any suggestions on the best method? I'm not trying to build a crawler but rather to gather information from the site and then make analysis of that data (this is an academic project). I've looked at a number of methods such as XMLHTTPRequest or the Document object. I thought perhaps using XmlHTTPRequest would better for scraping as it looks more like a script rather than an interface.

Are there any pros and cons for each method? The project I'm working on will be scraping two pages, once for the login and once for the homepage. XMLHTTPRequest is a web request, and most things related to HTML/XML, is a web request. This includes XMLHttpRequest, XMLDocument, etc.

Document Object Model, or DOM, is an XML Object Model. A class which allows you to manipulate XML elements.

XMLHttpRequest is the same as your code, so it will work. But there are many better ways to do what you want. For example, I don't use XMLHttpRequest at all, but that's because I prefer to use a different, less popular, tool for my needs.

So, in short, no, it is not good, and yes, you can use it, but you shouldn't. If you're looking for something like an XMLHttpRequest, but better, you should use a separate library, like the MSXML or another, that will give you the functionality you want.

Also, as you stated, VBA is just a language, which means that you can use almost anything, but you will probably have more problems when doing what you want to do.

How to extract data from HTML file to Excel using VBA?

I have an HTML file which consists of multiple worksheets.

And the html file is in binary form (Not a web-browser).

So I want to extract data from HTML file using VBA (like extracting specific page from HTML file). My idea is like: Open the HTML file and read it as HtmlDocument. Then do some codes in Excel using VBA to extract that data to Excel. After this, I will export that Excel file to pdf. There is no problem with reading the html file. But I really can't know how to extract data from this html file. I try to use InternetExplorer object, but I don't know how to get that data into Excel cell. Could anybody help me? Thanks. You can use the HtmlAgilityPack project to parse a HTML string and extract certain data from it. This article explains the steps and code you need to follow: Accessing XML data from your database. The code can be found here on GitHub: HtmlAgilityPack - Extracting Data From A Webpage. Note that it depends on the version of Access you are running, but if you are using 2023 it uses ADO instead of DAO, if that doesn't work (or is not possible) then check out this post on how to use the DAO version.

How to use VBA for web scraping?

I would like to use VBA in Excel to scrape a web page for data.

Here is the URL: The information I need is the "Player Stats" which can be found here: In this page, the numbers I need are shown in "Table 3", and I want to get those numbers into Excel. I have never worked with web scraping before, so I don't know how to do it.

Can someone please explain what to do? Or maybe even better, link me to a tutorial? Thank you very much! You'll need to open the page in your browser (eg Internet Explorer), then click the button to display the Table 3. In the example below, I'm using the IE Object Library to set up the page, and then clicking on the button that should trigger the action (on the web page) I need. Sub GetStats(). Const strURL As String = "". Dim objIE As Object. ' Create an instance of Internet Explorer. Set objIE = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application") ' Navigate to the page. objIE.Visible = True objIE.navigate strURL ' Wait for the page to load. Do While objIE.Busy Application.Wait DateAdd("s", 1, Now) Loop. ' Click on the button you want to trigger the action. objIE.Document.getElementById("stats").