![]() ![]() mysheet is defined as a worksheet, set it to sheetname to which date needs to be extracted.FindElementsByTag method extracts all elements with specified tag. We can look up HTML elements of a page using Right click > Inspect element in chrome. Extract all posts to posts element using FindElementsByTag method as all posts have a HTML tag named article in this blog.First, we start a web driver, go to homepage.Mysheet.Cells(i, 4).Value = post.FindElementB圜lass("published").Text On Error Resume Next 'Sticky posts don't have published date so ignore the error if not found Mysheet.Cells(i, 3).Value = post.FindElementB圜ss(".first-category > a").Text Mysheet.Cells(i, 2).Value = post.FindElementB圜lass("entry-title").FindElementByTag("a").Attribute("href") Mysheet.Cells(i, 1).Value = post.FindElementB圜lass("entry-title").Text So scroll to bottom of the page first then find elements. I have added animations to my homapage which will reveal posts only when scrolled to them. 'Selenium can only view visible elements. Set posts = bot.FindElementsByTag("article")īot.Mouse.moveTo bot.FindElementB圜lass("pagination") Public Sub scrapeCIL()ĭim bot As New WebDriver, posts As WebElements, post As WebElement, i As Integer, mysheet As Worksheet, keys As Selenium.keys We’ll be scraping post title, URL, Category and Published date. This post is all about how to scrape website using selenium VBA in Excel and different methods that are used to scrape data and best practices for scraping. Have a look at that post first as it explains how to get started. This post is continuation to Browser automation in Excel using Selenium VBA. ![]()
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