Today’s post will touch on something most analysts and VBA developers might find useful: downloading files using vba from the Web (VBA Download). Excel VBA again proves to be a versatile tool for Analytics – in this case for extracting and storing data. Downloading files can be a useful way to save data extracted from the web and to build your own data repository, or simply to make a backup of any data downloaded from the Web.
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Excel can be a great tool to harness the data of the Internet. If you are more into the subject of Web Scraping I encourage you to take a look at the Excel Scrape HTML Add-In which let’s you easily download HTML content from most Web Pages without resorting to VBA. In case browser simulation is needed read on my Simple class for using IE automation in VBA. Samanage agent download mac os.
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How it works
The procedure will download the binary file in 128 byte chunks while saving the contents to the data stream and flushing it into the file once completed. Istat menus free download mac. In between the chunks you can call “DoEvents” to enable user interaction, inform the user of the download progress Application.StatusBar or do other thing including interrupting the process and closing the connection. In case you want to do a proper Progress Bar and inform the user of the % progress you may want to leverage this solution.
Example
Let us use the procedure above to download a simple text file from AnalystCave.com:
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Reading / writing files in VBA
So you know how to download files using VBA. Download code from github mac. The next step is learning how to read files using VBA.
Be sure to check out my posts on reading and writing files using VBA: