Excel vba macro to connect to a particular webpage - search and retrieve data - vba

Question

I have column, say column A containing 1500 rows each having a string (Hexadecimal encodes). What I need is connect to a particular website search paste the string, press on decode, copy the result and paste it back to column B.
Any help would be of great help. I am new here.
Example:
String in Column A: 5468616e6b732061206c6f7420696e20616476616e6365
Website to search in: http://encodertool.com/hexadecimal
Copy from excel cell and paste in tab (under heading): ENTER AN Hexadecimal CONTENT TO DECODE
Then hit DECODE
Then Copy from DECODING RESULT
Finally paste back in ColumnB in my excel sheet.
Looking forward for an answer.
Thanks a million in advance.

Answer 1

Are you doing this as an exercise in automating the browser? Seems like you could more easily do it directly in VBA
From: http://bytes.com/topic/access/answers/874752-convert-hex-string
Sub tester()
Debug.Print fConvertHexToString( _
"5468616e6b732061206c6f7420696e20616476616e6365")
End Sub
Public Function fConvertHexToString(strHexString As String) As String
Dim intLenOfString As Integer
Dim intCounter As Integer
Dim strBuild As String
'Hex String must have a valid length, and it must be an even length
If Len(strHexString) = 0 Or Len(strHexString) Mod 2 <> 0 Then Exit Function
intLenOfString = Len(strHexString)
For intCounter = 1 To Len(strHexString)
If intCounter Mod 2 <> 0 Then 'need Hex pairs
'Retrieve the Value of the Hex Pair, then Convert to a Character,
'then Append to a Base String
strBuild = strBuild & Chr$(Val("&H" & Mid$(strHexString, intCounter, 2)))
End If
Next
fConvertHexToString = strBuild
End Function

Answer 2

Something like this. I have just run a mock test and it works. Give it a try. You can modify the code to your needs. This is a plain code. Code can be enhanced as well. But this does what you ask for
Dim ie As InternetExplorer
Dim doc As HTMLDocument
Sub start()
Dim ran As Range
Dim cel As Excel.Range
Set ran = Worksheets("Sheet1").Range("A1:A4") 'Change Your input range here
For Each cel In ran
If cel.Value <> Empty Then
Set ie = New InternetExplorerMedium 'open iE
ie.navigate ("http://encodertool.com/hexadecimal") 'Navigate to IE
ie.Visible = True
'Wait untill IE is loaded
Do
' Wait till the Browser is loaded
Loop Until ie.readyState = READYSTATE_COMPLETE
Set doc = ie.document
doc.getElementById("input_4").innerText = cel.Value ' Enter input value
test ' Click button
cel.Offset(0, 1).Value = doc.getElementById("output_4").innerText ' save Output value
End If
ie.Quit
Next cel
End Sub
'Click the Decode button
Sub test()
Set cl_button= doc.getElementsByTagName("a")
For Each one In cl_button
If one.getAttribute("onclick") = "ajaxfct('fcts.php','4')" Then
one.Click
Exit For
End If
Next one
End Sub
Before running the code, add reference to HTML object library & Internet controls. Also change the range of your input. I have set it to A1:A4 . Change to it whatever. Make sure there are no blank cells in the Range. ALso, If you dont want the browser to be displayed set
ie.visible = false
This is one way of doing it. THere are many simpler and effective ways of doing it