Get final URL with Excel VBA - vba

Question

I've been strugling with this issue, and trying to find a solution here in StackOverflow, but nothing helped.
I have thousands of links of images (Column A), that will get you to the final JPG url. It's not a redirect link because I've tried with different websites and it doesn't detect it.
Here is an example:
https://www.pepperl-fuchs.com/global/en/doci.htm?docilang=ENG&view=showproductpicbypartno&partno=000046
It will get you here:
https://files.pepperl-fuchs.com/webcat/navi/productInfo/pd/d428540a.jpg
So I would like to extrapolate all the final links in Column B.
I found some code that opens IE for each link, but it probably misses the function to copy the URL and paste it in the cell:
Sub Test()
Dim IE As Object
Dim URL As Range
Dim objDocument As Object
Dim x As Integer
Set IE = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
With IE
.Visible = True
For Each URL In Range("A2:A16")
.Navigate URL.Value
While .busy Or .ReadyState <> 4: DoEvents: Wend
If LCase(TypeName(objDocument)) = "htmldocument" Then
Cells(A, 1).Value = objDocument.URL
Cells(A, 2).Value = objDocument.Title
x = x + 1
End If
Next
End With
End Sub
Can you guys help me figure out what is missing? Unfortunately I'm not really familiar with VBA.
Thank you very much

Answer 1

Try this
Sub Test()
Dim IE As Object
Dim URL As Range
Dim objDocument As Object
Dim x As Integer
Set IE = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
With IE
.Visible = True
For Each URL In Range("A2:A16")
.Navigate URL.Value
While .busy Or .ReadyState <> 4: DoEvents: Wend
URL.Offset(, 1).Value = .LocationURL
Next
End With
End Sub

Answer 2

Try this code
Sub Test()
Dim html As HTMLDocument
Dim ie As Object
Dim objDocument As Object
Dim url As Range
Dim x As Integer
Set ie = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
x = 1
With ie
.Visible = True
For Each url In Range("A2:A3")
.navigate url.Value
While .Busy Or .readyState <> 4: DoEvents: Wend
Set html = .document
x = x + 1
Cells(x, 2).Value = html.url
Cells(x, 3).Value = html.Title
Next url
End With
End Sub

Answer 3

Need more to test with but this will be a lot faster and if you can easily adapt to using an array to loop faster than looping sheet by using Dim arr(): arr = .Range("A1:A" & .Cells(.Rows.Count, "A").End(xlUp).Row).Value and looping the first dimension.
Option Explicit
Public Sub GetInfo()
Dim rng As Range
With Worksheets("Sheet1")
For Each rng In .Range("A1:A" & .Cells(.Rows.Count, "A").End(xlUp).Row)
If InStr(rng.Value, "http") > 0 Then Debug.Print GetURL(rng.Value)
Next
End With
End Sub
Public Function GetURL(ByVal url As String) As String
Dim sResponse As String, s As Long, e As Long
With CreateObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP")
.Open "GET", url, False
.send
sResponse = StrConv(.responseBody, vbUnicode)
End With
s = InStr(1, sResponse, "https")
e = InStr(1, sResponse, ".jpg") + 4
GetURL = Mid(sResponse, s, e - s)
End Function
This does assume that all your links follow the same pattern as the first.