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Can I program Excel to download information from my browser when doing a Google search? For example, I want to download the results of Google Places. I heard that I can use macros to accomplish this but wanted to hear your take.
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epichero22
Does this help?
ASKER
I downloaded, installed, and tried out that program but I'm unsure on how to go about doing it. Basically what I'm looking for is an automated way to download information into a spreadsheet from a Google search (business name, address, etc). Is that possible?
This will get you started. It's a macro that will do a Google search based on what is in the active cell. I believe I've seen other threads that talk about downloading the results.
Sub GoogleSearch()
Dim newsite As Object
Set newsite = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.application")
newsite.Visible = True
newsite.Navigate "http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=" & ActiveCell.Text
End Sub
This seems to be free.
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That software will just get the title of the page, the description, and the URL. What I would like is the name of the business, the address, the manager, etc. It's what's shown in a Google Places search.
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