I am very new to VBA and had a question regarding how to click an href link in Internet Explorer. There are multiple href's on the source page. I have never encountered this and it has been giving me a hard time! I have looked on this website searching for answers but decided to ask here.
Below I have listed the code I have, up to the point where I encounter the problem, as well as the Source Code on Internet Explorer.
I commented out what I have tried and listed the error I received.
Code Below:
Sub ()
Dim i As Long
Dim URL As String
Dim IE As Object
Dim objElement As Object
Dim objCollection As Object
User = "User"
Pwd = "Pwd"
Set IE = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
IE.Visible = True
URL = "URL.com"
IE.Navigate URL
Do While IE.ReadyState <> 4
DoEvents
Loop
IE.Document.getElementById("txtUsername").Value = User
IE.Document.getElementById("txtPassword").Value = Pwd
IE.Document.getElementById("btnSubmit").Click
'IE.getElementByClassName("txtTerms").Click - Runtime Error 438
'IE.getElementByTagName("Claims Management").Click - Runtime Error 438
'Set HREF = IE.Document.getElementsByClassName("txtTerms")
'For Each HREF In IE.Document.getElementsByTagName("Claims").Click - No error occurs, nothing happens.
End Sub
Internet Explorer Source Code:
<table id="tblContent">
<tr>
<td class="txtTerms"><a href='href url 1'>Claims</a>
<br>Download<br>Create<br><a class='terms' href='href url 2'
target='terms'>Terms</a><br><br></td>
</tr>
My question would be, how to get VBA to click only on 'href url 1'?
Let me know if any additional information is needed. I apologize for my level of VBA but I am excited to learn more!
Thanks for the help!
In HTML, href is a property of the type <a> (link) which contains an absolute or relative path.
For example:
Questions
... will show as "Questions" and, if you click it, will bring you to www.stackoverflow.com/questions/. Note that "www.stackoverflow.com" has been added automatically since the path is relative.
Facebook
... will show as "Facebook" and, if you click it, will bring you to www.facebook.com. In this case, the path is absolute.
Although your HTML code is incomplete, I guess that all the links you want to navigate are contained in the table having id="tblContent". If that's the case, then you can get all the links (tagName == 'a') in that table and store the values in a collection:
Dim allHREFs As New Collection
Set allLinks = IE.Document.getElementById("tblContent").getElementsByTagName("a")
For Each link In allLinks
allHREFs.Add link.href
Next link
You can then decide to navigate them and do what you have to do one by one:
For j = 1 To allHREFs.Count
IE.Navigate URL + allHREFs(j) '<-- I'm assuming hrefs are relative.
'do your stuff here
Next href
Related
first time post here cause for the first time I couldn't find an answer on Stack.
The program I'm fiddling with goes to an API website - gets the passport key - and uses that to load the info in XML and then parses it. The code is very long so I'm only posting the bit that results in the error.
myURL = "https://api.smartbidnet.com/project?PassportKey=" & PassportKey & "&ResultType=xml" 'This is the API URL where we use our passport key to get our data
IE.Navigate myURL 'Go to Webpage
Dim XDoc As Object
Set XDoc = CreateObject("MSXML2.DOMDocument")
XDoc.async = False
XDoc.validateOnParse = False
XDoc.Load (ThisWorkbook.Path & myURL) 'Here we will load the XML info from the web page
Set lists = XDoc.DocumentElement 'lists will be used to access XML nodes
Set Projects = lists.SelectNodes("//root/projects")
Now heres the weird part:
If I open excel by selecting "Blank Workbook" the code works just fine from the editor.
If I save the blank workbook and then try to run it or If I simply right click the desktop and open a blank sheet rather than workbook and try to run it. the last line results in
Runtime 91 error
Any help is of course greatly appreciated.
The bit of code before the above is simply navigating to the site to grab the passport key for the API and build the myURL variable.
I am trying to write VBA codes to pull the price of a product from a website. In order to this, I turned on the "Microsoft HTML Object Library" and "Microsoft Internet Controls" in VBA References. However, when I get up to the point to search the of the item that attaches the price, the codes failed. Appreciate if anyone can provide a solution for it.
Below is the link to the sample webpage that I would like to copy price from.
Link
Below is my initial codes:
Sub Update()
Dim IE As New InternetExplorer
IE.Visible = False
IE.navigate "http://www.chemistwarehouse.com.au/buy/36985/Reach-Dentotape-Waxed-20m"
Do
DoEvents
Loop Until IE.readyState = READYSTATE_COMPLETE
Dim Doc As HTMLDocument
Set Doc = IE.document
Dim getprice As String
getprice = Trim(Doc.getElementsByTagName("div class="Price" itemprop="price"").innerText)
Worksheets("Sheet1").Range(C1).Value = getprice
End Sub
The function getElementsByTagName() requires a tag name only as parameter:
e.g. getElementsByTagName("div")
Try getElementsByClassName() instead:
getprice = Trim(Doc.getElementsByClassName("Price").Item.innerText)
There were a few issues with the above code.
Issue 1
getprice = Trim(Doc.getElementsByTagName("div class="Price" itemprop="price"").innerText)
This:
div class="Price" itemprop="price" isn't a TagName. TagNames are things like Input, IMG, Anchors, etc. However, we can see the Class attribute for the price element you are interested in. We can change how we select this element by doing:
getprice = Trim(Doc.getElementsByClassName("Price")(0).innerText)
You may notice (0) at the end of the element selection. This is to indicate which element is being selected of the Price ClassName collection. getElementsByClassName returns multiple elements, the first element being 0.
Issue 2
Worksheets("Sheet1").Range(C1).Value = getprice
I don't C1 referenced anywhere. One way to reference a specific cell, is to use a String to represent the range. From your code this becomes:
Worksheets("Sheet1").Range("C1").Value = getprice
I have a connection to an internet explorer webpage but i cannot seem to "click" a specific link using vba7 in access. I've tried loads of options like getelementsbyclassname. Here's the source code from the webpage:
<tr>
<td valign=bottom class="formbutton" align=center colspan=2>
view
</td>
</tr>
As you can see it has no name nor a usable hyperlink and the purpose of this link is to submit the filled-out form and give it a unique number on a new web page.
Can you please help me in VBA 7 for Access 2007 to come up with a vba code that works?
Many thanks!
The following should work assuming you have a pointer to the InternetExplorer object already.
Public Sub ClickElement()
'Assuming you already have an IE object
Dim Elements As Object
Dim Element As Object
'get all 'A' tags, which the hyperlink is part of
Set Elements = IE.Document.getElementsByTagName("a")
For Each Element In Elements
'I believe the element you want to click appears as 'View' on screen
If Element.InnerText = "View" Then
'Usually a good idea to give the element focus and
'possibly fire the OnClick event, but sometimes not needed
Element.Focus
Element.Click
Element.FireEvent ("OnClick")
Exit For
End If
Next
End Sub
I am looking to automate internet explorer using Excel VBA to extract football results from a website and am really struggling with getting the data to update when I change the dropdown value.
The website is: http://www.whoscored.com/Regions/250/Tournaments/30/Seasons/3871/Stages/8209/Fixtures/Europe-UEFA-Europa-League-2013-2014
I am looking to change the value of the 'stages' dropdown and scrape the match results.
My code works fine for opening IE, changing the value of the 'scrape' dropdown but I can't get the data to update. Whilst I am comfortable with VBA I know very little about HTML and Javascript although I can guess what some lines are doing. From what I can see there is javascript code that handles the change event, I just can't see how to get it to run - I have tried firing the 'onchange' event in my code as suggested from my searches but I can't get it to work.
This is the code I can see that controls the drop down (I have deleted a lot of the dropdown values for other dropdowns as it made this post even longer:
<div id="breadcrumb-nav">
.
.
<span><select id="stages" name="stages"><option selected="selected" value="/Regions/250/Tournaments/30/Seasons/3871/Stages/8209">Europa League Group Stages</option>
<option value="/Regions/250/Tournaments/30/Seasons/3871/Stages/7816">Europa League Qualification</option>
<option value="/Regions/250/Tournaments/30/Seasons/3871/Stages/8158">Europa League Grp. A</option>
<option value="/Regions/250/Tournaments/30/Seasons/3871/Stages/8159">Europa League Grp. B</option>
.
.
<option value="/Regions/250/Tournaments/30/Seasons/3871/Stages/8466">Europa League</option>
</select></span>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
$('#breadcrumb-nav select').change(function () {
NG.GA.trackEvent('BreadcrumbNav', this.id);
window.location.href = this.value;
// TODO: Disable all selects?
});
</script>
my code:
Sub ScrapeData()
Dim ie As InternetExplorer
Dim URL As String
URL = "http://www.whoscored.com/Regions/250/Tournaments/30/Seasons/3871/Stages/8466/Fixtures/Europe-UEFA-Europa-League-2013-2014"
Set ie = New InternetExplorer
ie.Visible = True
ie.navigate (URL)
Do
DoEvents
Loop Until ie.readyState = 4
SelectValue ie, "/Regions/250/Tournaments/30/Seasons/3871/Stages/7816"
SelectValue ie, "/Regions/250/Tournaments/30/Seasons/3871/Stages/8209"
End Sub
Sub SelectValue(ByVal ie As InternetExplorer, ByVal value As String)
Dim htmlDoc As HTMLDocument
Dim ddStages As HTMLSelectElement
Dim idBreadCrumb As Object
Set htmlDoc = ie.document
With ie.document
Set idBreadCrumb = .getelementbyid("breadcrumb-nav")
Set ddStages = .getelementbyid("stages")
End With
ddStages.value = value
ddStages.FireEvent ("onchange")
'fireevent on ddStages didn't work so tried here too
idBreadCrumb.FireEvent ("onchange")
Do
DoEvents
Loop Until ie.readyState = 4
End Sub
Any help would be really appreciated.
There must be some JavaScript executing on the event "the select element has changed its value". My suggestion, much easier than executing the JavaScript, is to just navigate the link (because what the JS does here is just changing the HTML page you are seeing, and not the elements within the same webpage).
So, for example, I would just replace this:
SelectValue ie, "/Regions/250/Tournaments/30/Seasons/3871/Stages/7816"
with this
ie.Navigate "http://www.whoscored.com/" & "/Regions/250/Tournaments/30/Seasons/3871/Stages/7816"
to get the exactly same result.
I am using excel with VBA to open a page and extract some information and putting it in my database. After some research, I figured out that opening IE obviously takes more time and it can be achieved using XmlHTTP. I am using the XmlHTTP to open a web page as proposed in my another question. However, while using IE I was able to navigate through div tags. How can I accomplish the same in XmlHTTP?
If I use IE to open the page, I am doing something like below to navigate through multiple div elements.
Set openedpage1 = iedoc1.getElementById("profile-experience").getElementsbyClassName("title")
For Each div In openedpage1
---------
However, with XmlHttp, I am not able to do like below.
For Each div In html.getElementById("profile-experience").getElementsbyClassName("title")
I am getting an error as object doesn't support this property or method.
Take a look at this answer that I had posted for another question as this is close to what you're looking for. In summary, you will:
Create a Microsoft.xmlHTTP object
Use the xmlHTTP object to open your url
Load the response as XML into a DOMDOcument object
From there you can get a set of XMLNodes, select elements, attributes, etc. from the DOMDocument
The XMLHttp object returns the contents of the page as a string in responseText. You will need to parse this string to find the information you need. Regex is an option but it will be quite cumbersome.
This page uses string functions (Mid, InStr) to extract information from the html-text.
It may be possible to create a DOMDocument from the retreived HTML (I believe it is) but I haven't pursued this.
As mentioned with the answers above put the .responseText into an HTMLDocument and then work with that object e.g.
Option Explicit
Public Sub test()
Dim html As HTMLDocument
Set html = New HTMLDocument
With CreateObject("WINHTTP.WinHTTPRequest.5.1")
.Open "GET", "http://www.someurl.com", False
.send
html.body.innerHTML = .responseText
End With
Dim aNodeList As Object, iItem As Long
Set aNodeList = html.querySelectorAll("#profile-experience.title")
With ActiveSheet
For iItem = 0 To aNodeList.Length - 1
.Cells(iItem + 1, 1) = aNodeList.item(iItem).innerText
'.Cells(iItem + 1, 1) = aNodeList(iItem).innerText '<== or potentially this syntax
Next iItem
End With
End Sub
Note:
I have literally translated your getElementById("profile-experience").getElementsbyClassName("title") into a CSS selector, querySelectorAll("#profile-experience.title"), so assume that you have done that correctly.