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Filling a form on a website with information from excel

Hi!

I hope to be write a program to fill a form on the internet with information from an excel spreadsheet. For example, there is a website where u have a personal account. You can access the account manually to input the information in the excel spreadsheet into the various fields of a form. I would like to find out how can i go about doing this automatically. I would really appreciate it if someone can provide me with some directions on how i can go about doing this.

Thanks,
Kai

DocM

'Make a reference to Microsoft Internet controls

Dim WithEvents IE As InternetExplorer
Private Sub Form_Load()
Set IE = New InternetExplorer
With IE
.Navigate "www.hotmail.com" ' The URL
.Visible = True
End With
End Sub

Private Sub IE_DocumentComplete(ByVal pDisp As Object, URL As Variant)

If (pDisp Is IE) Then
'Replace with appropriate text
If InStr(1, URL, "passport.com/cgi-bin/login", vbTextCompare) Then
Dim inp As Object
Set inp = IE.Document.All.Item("login")
inp.Value = "username" 'replace with your id

Set inp = IE.Document.All.Item("passwd")
inp.Value = "password" 'replace with your password

Set inp = IE.Document.All.Item("enter")
inp.Click
End If
End If
End Sub

Charlemagne_

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Hi!
Is there any website where i can find more information on it?

What happens if i wish to follow through a link? on the site that can only be access through clicking... any ideas?

Thanks

Charlemagne_

ASKER

Hi!
I tried the code you posted... but it doesnt seem to work... i can open the url, but i am not able to proceed with entering my information. Can you help me out with this? thanks

DocM

Each Web Page is different. Look at the codesource of your url and search for "input type" to determine the names of the controls you want to fill.
Example :
<input type="password" name="passwd" maxlength="16" class="PPRField" size="25" tabindex="2" autocomplete="OFF">

The name of this control is "passwd" and it is an array.
So I think you would have to modify the code like this:

Set inp = IE.Document.All.Item("passwd")(2)
inp.Value = "mypassword" 'replace with your password

Charlemagne_

ASKER

Hi!
Sorry for the late reply... but i was wondering if there is anywhere i can read up on the IE object library?

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Charlemagne_

ASKER

Hi DocM,

I tried the code u posted. I placed the form load in a module, the IE_DocumentComplete and the withevents declaration in a class module. I have also made the reference to the internet controls.

However, the code does not run.... do u think u can help me out?
Many thanks!