Safe way to web scrape within VBA - vba

Question

I need to scrape some price data from a website. To get this done, I use the following snippet:
With http
.Open "GET", url, False
.send
html.body.innerHTML = .responseText
End With
Set topics = html.getElementsByClassName("sidebar-item-label")
For i = 1 To topics.Length - 1
str = topics(i).href
It works, but I am wondering how to secure the data, before assigning the html response to my variable str. To avoid malicious code get run on my windows machine, I need to validate, sanatize and escape the response data, before safe it to the variable and do the further stuff like string splitting and save it into my Excel spreadsheet.
Does anybody can help me with that? Do you need more informations?

Answer 1

My code so far:
Dim objXmlHTTP as New XMLHTTP60, html as New HTMLDocument
Dim prices as IHTMLElementCollection
With objXmlHTTP
.open "GET", URL, FALSE
.send
html.body.innerHTML = .responseText
End With
Set prices = html.getElementsByClassName("MyClass")
After getting the data, I am looping through the collection and search for a specific string "price" and assign the data t/value of price to an Excel cell. So and to avoid that excel will execute any bad code, I want to validate, sanatize and escape the data, before saving the html data into Excel cell.