GS wrote:
I thought I'd take a look at going with a userform and MS Web
Browser
control for more flexible programming opts

While I'm on pause waiting to consult with client on my current
project...

This is doable; -I have a userform with web browser, a textbox, and
some
buttons.

The Web Browser doesn't display AddressBar/StatusBar for some
reason,
even though these props are set 'True'. (Initial URL (pg1) is
hard-coded
as a result) You navigate to parent pages using Next/Last buttons,
starting with pg1 on load. Optionally, you can enter a page# in a
GoTo box.

The browser lets you select links, and you load its current
document
page source into txtViewSrc via btnViewSrc. This action also
Splits()
page source into vPgSrc for locating search text selected in
cboSearchTxt. The cboSearchTxt_Change event auto-locates your
desired
lines at present, but I will have it appending them to file
shortly.
This file will be structured same as illustrated earlier. I think
this
could be fully automated after I see how the links are define in
their
innerHTML.

For now, I'll provide a button to write found lines because it
gives an
opportunity to preview the data going into your file. This will
happen
via loading found lines into vaLinesOut() which is sized 0to3. This
will
make the search sequence important so the output file has its lines
in
the correct order (top-to-bottom in page source).

I use my own file read/write procedures because they're configured
for
large amounts of data in 1 shot to/from dbase.txt files, and so are
included in the userform class.

While there's still a manual element to this, it's going to be
orders of
magnitude less daunting and more efficient that what you do now. It
seems highly likely over time that this entire task can be fully
automated just by entering the URL for pg1!

Way beyond me.
If in HTML one can copy an <a href="..." to the hard drive, then
that is all i need.

Just another approach, since you seem to be having difficulty getting
URLDownloadToFile() to work.

My approach reads innerHTML of web pages and outputs to txt file. Not
sure why you want to grab html and save to disc given the file size is
a concern. My approach puts parsed data from all 999 pages into a txt
file less than 4mb in size. Once the individual steps have been
optimized, automating the entire process will be easy. (I'll leave that
part for you to do however you want it to work)

I will post the contents of my fParseWebPages.frm file. You will need
to set a ref to the Microsoft Web Browser to use it.

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