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Hi all,
I'm looking for the code necessary to drag current, up to date stock prices from the Australian share market into an Excel spreadsheet. I was pointed to one free file download but it had a password on the code so I couldn't alter it to my needs. I tried using a web query feeding off of MSN Money central but the data from this feed seems to have frozen as of last Friday. Can anyone help me out? Any help would be very appreciated. Thanks guys, Kim |
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Kim, Since no one with more smarts than I have about this has jumped in, I'll
offer up something that you can perhaps use or alter to suit your needs. This is from a setup used to update some team stats via a web query. I truly don't understand all I know about it, but it works. The setup: initially I created the web query and saved it (the .iqy file) in the same folder with the workbook that uses it. You'll see in the code where when things go wrong, it looks in the same folder to try to find it. The name of the .iqy file as I named it is used, you'll need to change that. Code goes to the page used to retrieve the data, executes the query and failing that, sets up to use the query. The name associated with the query area on the sheet is removed to keep from creating zillions of entries in the workbook's Names collection. After the data is retrieved, the code goes on (not posted here) to grab what it needs from the worksheet and use it elsewhere. If you think I can help more, feel free to contact me at HelpFrom at jlathamsite.com - but I don't use Web Queries much at all, and know very little more than what is shown here in the code. The variables used in the code, such as ImportedStatsSheet, PathToQuery (both are type String) and anyWebQuery (type Object) were defined earlier - ahead of this code. Sheets(ImportedStatsSheet).Select Cells.Select Selection.ClearContents Range("A1").Select On Error Resume Next Selection.QueryTable.Refresh BackgroundQuery:=False If Err < 0 Then 'must rebuild query and then requery Err.Clear On Error GoTo 0 PathToQuery = ThisWorkbook.FullName For LC = Len(PathToQuery) To 1 Step -1 If Mid$(PathToQuery, LC, 1) = "\" Then PathToQuery = Left(PathToQuery, LC) & "StarFireStats.iqy" Exit For End If Next 'define this as to the path to file StarFireStats.iqy QueryConnectString = "FINDER;" & PathToQuery For Each anyWebQuery In ActiveSheet.QueryTables anyWebQuery.Delete Next With ActiveSheet.QueryTables.Add(Connection:=QueryConne ctString, Destination:=Range("A1")) .Name = "StarFireStats" .FieldNames = True .RowNumbers = False .FillAdjacentFormulas = False .PreserveFormatting = True .RefreshOnFileOpen = False .BackgroundQuery = True .RefreshStyle = xlInsertDeleteCells .SavePassword = False .SaveData = True .AdjustColumnWidth = True .RefreshPeriod = 0 .WebSelectionType = xlSpecifiedTables .WebFormatting = xlWebFormattingNone .WebTables = "3" .WebPreFormattedTextToColumns = True .WebConsecutiveDelimitersAsOne = True .WebSingleBlockTextImport = False .WebDisableDateRecognition = False .WebDisableRedirections = False .Refresh BackgroundQuery:=False End With End If On Error GoTo 0 'we should have data from the website now 'redefine the lookup table based on imported data "Kim" wrote: Hi all, I'm looking for the code necessary to drag current, up to date stock prices from the Australian share market into an Excel spreadsheet. I was pointed to one free file download but it had a password on the code so I couldn't alter it to my needs. I tried using a web query feeding off of MSN Money central but the data from this feed seems to have frozen as of last Friday. Can anyone help me out? Any help would be very appreciated. Thanks guys, Kim |
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