VBA to Read data from IE Website

Kaprice
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I'm working in MS Access 2010.

I've got code that opens an IE browser and navigates to a page.

Dim mobjIE As SHDocVw.InternetExplorer

Set mobjIE = New SHDocVw.InternetExplorer

  mstrPage = vNewValue
  mobjIE.navigate mstrPage

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Now I want to read various elements on the page. I have iMacros but it's not an ideal solution for me so I'm trying to do it all from VBA.

But, iMacros does appear to be very good at grabbing element names/ids.

Here's what iMacros came up with:

TAG POS=4 TYPE=P ATTR=TXT:* EXTRACT=TXT
TAG POS=1 TYPE=SPAN ATTR=CLASS:style15 EXTRACT=TXT
TAG POS=1 TYPE=I ATTR=TXT:* EXTRACT=TXT
TAG POS=1 TYPE=SPAN ATTR=CLASS:style5 EXTRACT=TXT
TAG POS=2 TYPE=SPAN ATTR=CLASS:style5 EXTRACT=TXT
TAG POS=4 TYPE=STRONG ATTR=TXT:* EXTRACT=TXT
TAG POS=5 TYPE=STRONG ATTR=TXT:* EXTRACT=TXT
TAG POS=6 TYPE=STRONG ATTR=TXT:* EXTRACT=TXT
TAG POS=7 TYPE=STRONG ATTR=TXT:* EXTRACT=TXT
TAG POS=8 TYPE=STRONG ATTR=TXT:* EXTRACT=TXT
TAG POS=9 TYPE=STRONG ATTR=TXT:* EXTRACT=TXT
TAG POS=10 TYPE=STRONG ATTR=TXT:* EXTRACT=TXT

' Loop Reviews
TAG POS=1 TYPE=SPAN ATTR=CLASS:style11 EXTRACT=TXT
TAG POS=1 TYPE=IMG ATTR=SRC:*/images/star*.gif EXTRACT=HTM
TAG POS=1 TYPE=FONT ATTR=* EXTRACT=TXT

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Apparently, POS indicates WHICH element it is.

Is that enough info to help me come up with VBA code that will read the text in those elements and store in a variable?
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NorieAnalyst Assistant

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I don't really think that information like that is much use.

Do you know what elements/data you want from the page?

Can you post the URL for the page?
Kaprice

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NorieAnalyst Assistant

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What data do you want from the page?
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Kaprice

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the ones i circled in the screenshots.
NorieAnalyst Assistant

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Right, I see now - had trouble opening the image files for some reason.
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This works for everything except the image (stars):

  
  Dim oItem As Object
  Dim intPos As Integer
  Dim strTag As String
  Dim strAttr As String
  Dim strAttrValue As String

  intPos = 1
  strTag = "I"
  strAttr = "Txt"
  strAttrValue = ""

  With mobjIE.Document

    For Each oItem In .getElementsByTagName(strTag)
      If "|" & oItem.getAttribute(strAttr) = "|" & strAttrValue Then
        ctr = ctr + 1
        If ctr = intPos Then
          Debug.Print oItem.innerText
        End If
      End If
    Next
  End With

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The iMacros data did, indeed, provide the what I needed.

intPos is from POS
strTag is from TYPE
strAttr is from ATTR
strValue is from after the "=" after ATTR (i.e. "style15")

in the case of the empty TXTs, I set to "" and add the pipes to the IF statement.

I'll convert these variables to parameters so it will work with all cases.
NorieAnalyst Assistant

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Glad you got it working.
NorieAnalyst Assistant

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Glad you got it working.
Kaprice

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I figured it out even though the expert said the iMacros info would not help.

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