Excel Vba Download From Website

Today’s post will touch on something most analysts and VBA developers might find useful: downloading files using vba from the Web (VBA Download). Excel VBA again proves to be a versatile tool for Analytics – in this case for extracting and storing data. Downloading files can be a useful way to save data extracted from the web and to build your own data repository, or simply to make a backup of any data downloaded from the Web.

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Jul 23, 2014  Hi, I m using SharePoint 2010 list, which I need to export to Excel and save it on my local drive. I could do that easily using point-click interface from SharePoint itself.But I need to do it using vba. I m using Url protocol shown below to export my list to a Microsoft Excel worksheet. Hi You can use the WebQuery to get the data from Excel. Oct 15, 2015  The company controlling the website had changed the layout of the content. I decided to extract the data from the website into excel using VBA and a call on the HTML tables inside of the website itself. Obviously this technique works best where there are dedicated tables on a website. VBA Excel Download webpage complete. Ask Question Asked 4 years, 8 months ago. Of course, it is rarely the case that we actually need an entire web page in HTML format, so if you are looking to then scrape particular data from a web page, the XMLHTTP and DOM would be the best way to do this, and it's not necessary to save this to a file at. This blog mainly focus on teaching how to apply Visual Basic for Microsoft Excel. So improve the functionality of your excel workbooks with the aid of this blog. Also ask any questions you have regarding MS Excel and applying VBA. Download a file from url using VBA. Sometimes our VB Applications needs to interact with websites.

Excel can be a great tool to harness the data of the Internet. If you are more into the subject of Web Scraping I encourage you to take a look at the Excel Scrape HTML Add-In which let’s you easily download HTML content from most Web Pages without resorting to VBA. In case browser simulation is needed read on my Simple class for using IE automation in VBA.

Other VBA File resources
  1. Apr 07, 2017  How to download a pdf file from browser using Excel VBA. Ask Question 3. I am using the below code snippet to download a PDF file from a website. Option Explicit Private Declare Function URLDownloadToFile Lib 'urlmon' Alias 'URLDownloadToFileA' (ByVal pCaller As LongByVal szURL As StringByVal szFileName As StringByVal.
  2. I need to download a CSV file from a website using VBA in Excel. The server also needed to authenticate me since it was data from a survey service. I found a lot of examples using Internet Explorer controlled with VBA for this. However, it was mostly slow solutions and most were also convoluted.

VBA download file macro

In some cases you will need to download large files (not text/HTML) and will want to be able to control the process of downloading the data e.g. might want to interrupt the process, enable the user to interact with Excel (DoEvent) etc. In these cases the above procedure won’t do. The procedure below may however prove more efficient as it will download the file in 128 byte chunks of data instead of a single stream.

See effect below when executing macro:

How it works

The procedure will download the binary file in 128 byte chunks while saving the contents to the data stream and flushing it into the file once completed. In between the chunks you can call “DoEvents” to enable user interaction, inform the user of the download progress Application.StatusBar or do other thing including interrupting the process and closing the connection. In case you want to do a proper Progress Bar and inform the user of the % progress you may want to leverage this solution.

Example

Let us use the procedure above to download a simple text file from AnalystCave.com:

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Reading / writing files in VBA

So you know how to download files using VBA. The next step is learning how to read files using VBA.

Be sure to check out my posts on reading and writing files using VBA:

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I'm trying to download a complete webpage. In other words automate this process:

1- Open the webpage2- Click on Save as3- Select Complete4- Close the webpage.

This is what I've got so far:

When I run the code in the last line a save file dialog appears. Is there any way to suppress this?

Any help would be most appreciated.

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The Save As dialog cannot be suppressed:

The Save HTML Document dialog cannot be suppressed when calling this method from script.

It is also a modal dialog and you cannot automate the way to click the 'Save' button. VBA execution pauses while waiting manual user input when faced with a dialog of this sort.

Rather than using the IE.Document.ExecCommand method, you could try to read the page's HTML and print that to a file using standard I/O functions.

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I am not sure whether this will give you exactly what you want, or not. There are other ways to get data from web and probably the best would be to get the raw HTML from an XMLHTTP request and print that to a file.

Of course, it is rarely the case that we actually need an entire web page in HTML format, so if you are looking to then scrape particular data from a web page, the XMLHTTP and DOM would be the best way to do this, and it's not necessary to save this to a file at all.

Or, you could use the Selenium wrapper to automate IE, which is much more robust than using the relatively few native methods to the InternetExplorer.Application class.

Note also that you are using a rather crude method of waiting for the web page to load (Loop While IE.Busy). While this may work sometimes, it may not be reliable. There are dozens of questions about how to do this properly here on SO, so I would refer you to the search feature here to tweak that code a little bit.

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