Excel VBA Introduction Part 46 - Querying Web Pages using Query Tables

WiseOwlTutorials · 106K views · 2016 · 47:06

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Stack Overflow users link it as a starting tutorial for beginners who want to scrape or query websites from Excel VBA.

Recommended by 3 people across 3 different months, 2018 to 2020.

What it is

A 47-minute tutorial from WiseOwlTutorials, presented by Andrew Gould, on pulling web page data into Excel with VBA Query Tables. It covers creating a query table linked to a web page, choosing which HTML tables to return, and passing values into a URL query string for dynamic, refreshable web queries.

What people said

Recommends ashleedawg · 2018-06 · Stack Overflow · on “Website Scraping using VBA”

Can't give much help without knowing what's on the page and which section of your code is the issue. Here's a good tutorial (there are 4 parts in the playlist [this video] .)

Recommends QHarr · 2019-12 · Stack Overflow · on “How to scrape specific part of online english dictionary?”

I would suggest you put aside a day or two to go through some tutorials starting with these: [this video] and [LINK] . You will then be able to more confidently search on StackOverflow for Question/Answers that will help get you started. Also, look into whether there is an API for this.

Recommends TinMan · 2020-12 · Stack Overflow · on “I want to automate excel to search and get result from a website”

These resources will help: Excel VBA Introduction Part 46 - Querying Web Pages using Query Tables [this video] And Excel VBA Introduction Part 47 - Browsing to Websites and Scraping a Web Page [LINK] Excel VBA Introduction Part 48 - Web Scraping Across Multiple Pages [LINK]