As I mentioned I am planning to extend the Scrape HTML Add-In with additional tools and functionalities. Scraping HTML content should not require any VBA coding – this rule is guiding the further development of this tool.
See the latest version of the Excel Scrape HTML Add-In here:
Excel Scrape HTML Add-In
Adding to the toolbox I would like to introduce you to the Scrape HTML Tool. The Get* functions (e.g. GetElementByRegex) which I posted earlier are really useful when you are making a solution which can be reused e.g. scraping regularly posted online data etc. I suppose, however, that sometimes there is only a need to scrape some content once but preferably in a structured manner or only some subsets of the content.
The Scrape HTML Tool
The tool comes in handy when you want to quickly scrape all items of a certain type (matching a certain regular expression). It comes with several predefined scraping regular expressions e.g. scraping URLs and img src properties. However, these examples are just to start you off with building your own patterns/expressions.
See this video on how the Scrape HTML Tool can help you:
http://youtu.be/5yUREkttQrs
Let me know if this tool is useful to you and if you see any need of extending it!
I am also planning to post some a simple tutorial or something to show more elaborate examples of scraping/downloading HTML content from the web. Information is power – it is time to make usage of data more simple.
