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How locate connection information for web query?
I am new at working with web queries, and I am attempting to build some code
that will download stock quotes. I know that there are some canned programs out there, but I want to learn by building this myself. Some of my VERY basic code so far is below. QUESTION: The one question that I can't seem to find any discussions on is how the heck does one locate the connection string to connect, say, to Yahoo.com or to Microsoft.com to import stock info? Set qts = ActiveSheet.QueryTables Set qt = qts.Add("URL;http://www.HOW DO i FIND WHAT THE HECK GOES HERE", Application.Range(ActiveCell.Address)) With qt .WebSelectionType = xlSpecifiedTables '.WebTables = "1" .WebFormatting = xlWebFormattingAll .RefreshStyle = xlOverwriteCells .BackgroundQuery = False .AdjustColumnWidth = True .Refresh 'BackgroundQuery:=False End With Please help and be gentle to this starter...thanks in advance. |
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quartz
Open your browser and point to the page you want. Copy the URL from the browser and paste it into your code. Don't forget to add URL; to the front if you accidently paste over it. -- Dick Kusleika MVP - Excel Excel Blog - Daily Dose of Excel www.dicks-blog.com quartz wrote: I am new at working with web queries, and I am attempting to build some code that will download stock quotes. I know that there are some canned programs out there, but I want to learn by building this myself. Some of my VERY basic code so far is below. QUESTION: The one question that I can't seem to find any discussions on is how the heck does one locate the connection string to connect, say, to Yahoo.com or to Microsoft.com to import stock info? Set qts = ActiveSheet.QueryTables Set qt = qts.Add("URL;http://www.HOW DO i FIND WHAT THE HECK GOES HERE", Application.Range(ActiveCell.Address)) With qt .WebSelectionType = xlSpecifiedTables '.WebTables = "1" .WebFormatting = xlWebFormattingAll .RefreshStyle = xlOverwriteCells .BackgroundQuery = False .AdjustColumnWidth = True .Refresh 'BackgroundQuery:=False End With Please help and be gentle to this starter...thanks in advance. |
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Thanks Dick.
Once I have the "URL" there is usually some short string that follows the URL that allows you to specify what stock or stocks you want data on. How do I locate that info? Can I go to "View" then "Source" and find it in the HTML code for the page? Do I have to search the provider's web site for it? How do I get that crucial bit of info? Thanks much in advance for your assistance. "Dick Kusleika" wrote: quartz Open your browser and point to the page you want. Copy the URL from the browser and paste it into your code. Don't forget to add URL; to the front if you accidently paste over it. -- Dick Kusleika MVP - Excel Excel Blog - Daily Dose of Excel www.dicks-blog.com quartz wrote: I am new at working with web queries, and I am attempting to build some code that will download stock quotes. I know that there are some canned programs out there, but I want to learn by building this myself. Some of my VERY basic code so far is below. QUESTION: The one question that I can't seem to find any discussions on is how the heck does one locate the connection string to connect, say, to Yahoo.com or to Microsoft.com to import stock info? Set qts = ActiveSheet.QueryTables Set qt = qts.Add("URL;http://www.HOW DO i FIND WHAT THE HECK GOES HERE", Application.Range(ActiveCell.Address)) With qt .WebSelectionType = xlSpecifiedTables '.WebTables = "1" .WebFormatting = xlWebFormattingAll .RefreshStyle = xlOverwriteCells .BackgroundQuery = False .AdjustColumnWidth = True .Refresh 'BackgroundQuery:=False End With Please help and be gentle to this starter...thanks in advance. |
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do the query manually at the yahoo site, then look at the resulting URL.
-- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "quartz" wrote in message ... Thanks Dick. Once I have the "URL" there is usually some short string that follows the URL that allows you to specify what stock or stocks you want data on. How do I locate that info? Can I go to "View" then "Source" and find it in the HTML code for the page? Do I have to search the provider's web site for it? How do I get that crucial bit of info? Thanks much in advance for your assistance. "Dick Kusleika" wrote: quartz Open your browser and point to the page you want. Copy the URL from the browser and paste it into your code. Don't forget to add URL; to the front if you accidently paste over it. -- Dick Kusleika MVP - Excel Excel Blog - Daily Dose of Excel www.dicks-blog.com quartz wrote: I am new at working with web queries, and I am attempting to build some code that will download stock quotes. I know that there are some canned programs out there, but I want to learn by building this myself. Some of my VERY basic code so far is below. QUESTION: The one question that I can't seem to find any discussions on is how the heck does one locate the connection string to connect, say, to Yahoo.com or to Microsoft.com to import stock info? Set qts = ActiveSheet.QueryTables Set qt = qts.Add("URL;http://www.HOW DO i FIND WHAT THE HECK GOES HERE", Application.Range(ActiveCell.Address)) With qt .WebSelectionType = xlSpecifiedTables '.WebTables = "1" .WebFormatting = xlWebFormattingAll .RefreshStyle = xlOverwriteCells .BackgroundQuery = False .AdjustColumnWidth = True .Refresh 'BackgroundQuery:=False End With Please help and be gentle to this starter...thanks in advance. |
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Thanks much Tom. I will give this a try.
"Tom Ogilvy" wrote: do the query manually at the yahoo site, then look at the resulting URL. -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "quartz" wrote in message ... Thanks Dick. Once I have the "URL" there is usually some short string that follows the URL that allows you to specify what stock or stocks you want data on. How do I locate that info? Can I go to "View" then "Source" and find it in the HTML code for the page? Do I have to search the provider's web site for it? How do I get that crucial bit of info? Thanks much in advance for your assistance. "Dick Kusleika" wrote: quartz Open your browser and point to the page you want. Copy the URL from the browser and paste it into your code. Don't forget to add URL; to the front if you accidently paste over it. -- Dick Kusleika MVP - Excel Excel Blog - Daily Dose of Excel www.dicks-blog.com quartz wrote: I am new at working with web queries, and I am attempting to build some code that will download stock quotes. I know that there are some canned programs out there, but I want to learn by building this myself. Some of my VERY basic code so far is below. QUESTION: The one question that I can't seem to find any discussions on is how the heck does one locate the connection string to connect, say, to Yahoo.com or to Microsoft.com to import stock info? Set qts = ActiveSheet.QueryTables Set qt = qts.Add("URL;http://www.HOW DO i FIND WHAT THE HECK GOES HERE", Application.Range(ActiveCell.Address)) With qt .WebSelectionType = xlSpecifiedTables '.WebTables = "1" .WebFormatting = xlWebFormattingAll .RefreshStyle = xlOverwriteCells .BackgroundQuery = False .AdjustColumnWidth = True .Refresh 'BackgroundQuery:=False End With Please help and be gentle to this starter...thanks in advance. |
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Thanks Don. After right clicking, I selected "Export to Excel" is that right?
Thanks a lot to both you and Tom for your help. "Don Guillett" wrote: In later versions of excel you can right click in the body of the web site and download to an excel file. This creates a query. Then you can record a macro while using dataedit query. Then you can see how to change the parameters in the resulting macro. -- Don Guillett SalesAid Software "Tom Ogilvy" wrote in message ... do the query manually at the yahoo site, then look at the resulting URL. -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "quartz" wrote in message ... Thanks Dick. Once I have the "URL" there is usually some short string that follows the URL that allows you to specify what stock or stocks you want data on. How do I locate that info? Can I go to "View" then "Source" and find it in the HTML code for the page? Do I have to search the provider's web site for it? How do I get that crucial bit of info? Thanks much in advance for your assistance. "Dick Kusleika" wrote: quartz Open your browser and point to the page you want. Copy the URL from the browser and paste it into your code. Don't forget to add URL; to the front if you accidently paste over it. -- Dick Kusleika MVP - Excel Excel Blog - Daily Dose of Excel www.dicks-blog.com quartz wrote: I am new at working with web queries, and I am attempting to build some code that will download stock quotes. I know that there are some canned programs out there, but I want to learn by building this myself. Some of my VERY basic code so far is below. QUESTION: The one question that I can't seem to find any discussions on is how the heck does one locate the connection string to connect, say, to Yahoo.com or to Microsoft.com to import stock info? Set qts = ActiveSheet.QueryTables Set qt = qts.Add("URL;http://www.HOW DO i FIND WHAT THE HECK GOES HERE", Application.Range(ActiveCell.Address)) With qt .WebSelectionType = xlSpecifiedTables '.WebTables = "1" .WebFormatting = xlWebFormattingAll .RefreshStyle = xlOverwriteCells .BackgroundQuery = False .AdjustColumnWidth = True .Refresh 'BackgroundQuery:=False End With Please help and be gentle to this starter...thanks in advance. |
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Yes, how did it work for you?
-- Don Guillett SalesAid Software "quartz" wrote in message ... Thanks Don. After right clicking, I selected "Export to Excel" is that right? Thanks a lot to both you and Tom for your help. "Don Guillett" wrote: In later versions of excel you can right click in the body of the web site and download to an excel file. This creates a query. Then you can record a macro while using dataedit query. Then you can see how to change the parameters in the resulting macro. -- Don Guillett SalesAid Software "Tom Ogilvy" wrote in message ... do the query manually at the yahoo site, then look at the resulting URL. -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "quartz" wrote in message ... Thanks Dick. Once I have the "URL" there is usually some short string that follows the URL that allows you to specify what stock or stocks you want data on. How do I locate that info? Can I go to "View" then "Source" and find it in the HTML code for the page? Do I have to search the provider's web site for it? How do I get that crucial bit of info? Thanks much in advance for your assistance. "Dick Kusleika" wrote: quartz Open your browser and point to the page you want. Copy the URL from the browser and paste it into your code. Don't forget to add URL; to the front if you accidently paste over it. -- Dick Kusleika MVP - Excel Excel Blog - Daily Dose of Excel www.dicks-blog.com quartz wrote: I am new at working with web queries, and I am attempting to build some code that will download stock quotes. I know that there are some canned programs out there, but I want to learn by building this myself. Some of my VERY basic code so far is below. QUESTION: The one question that I can't seem to find any discussions on is how the heck does one locate the connection string to connect, say, to Yahoo.com or to Microsoft.com to import stock info? Set qts = ActiveSheet.QueryTables Set qt = qts.Add("URL;http://www.HOW DO i FIND WHAT THE HECK GOES HERE", Application.Range(ActiveCell.Address)) With qt .WebSelectionType = xlSpecifiedTables '.WebTables = "1" .WebFormatting = xlWebFormattingAll .RefreshStyle = xlOverwriteCells .BackgroundQuery = False .AdjustColumnWidth = True .Refresh 'BackgroundQuery:=False End With Please help and be gentle to this starter...thanks in advance. |
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Great! That did the trick! Thanks so much!
Now I guess if I want the data in a certain order/format, I need to just write some code to grab what I need, then loop to the next stock...any thoughts/shortcuts on this? Thanks again. "Don Guillett" wrote: Yes, how did it work for you? -- Don Guillett SalesAid Software "quartz" wrote in message ... Thanks Don. After right clicking, I selected "Export to Excel" is that right? Thanks a lot to both you and Tom for your help. "Don Guillett" wrote: In later versions of excel you can right click in the body of the web site and download to an excel file. This creates a query. Then you can record a macro while using dataedit query. Then you can see how to change the parameters in the resulting macro. -- Don Guillett SalesAid Software "Tom Ogilvy" wrote in message ... do the query manually at the yahoo site, then look at the resulting URL. -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "quartz" wrote in message ... Thanks Dick. Once I have the "URL" there is usually some short string that follows the URL that allows you to specify what stock or stocks you want data on. How do I locate that info? Can I go to "View" then "Source" and find it in the HTML code for the page? Do I have to search the provider's web site for it? How do I get that crucial bit of info? Thanks much in advance for your assistance. "Dick Kusleika" wrote: quartz Open your browser and point to the page you want. Copy the URL from the browser and paste it into your code. Don't forget to add URL; to the front if you accidently paste over it. -- Dick Kusleika MVP - Excel Excel Blog - Daily Dose of Excel www.dicks-blog.com quartz wrote: I am new at working with web queries, and I am attempting to build some code that will download stock quotes. I know that there are some canned programs out there, but I want to learn by building this myself. Some of my VERY basic code so far is below. QUESTION: The one question that I can't seem to find any discussions on is how the heck does one locate the connection string to connect, say, to Yahoo.com or to Microsoft.com to import stock info? Set qts = ActiveSheet.QueryTables Set qt = qts.Add("URL;http://www.HOW DO i FIND WHAT THE HECK GOES HERE", Application.Range(ActiveCell.Address)) With qt .WebSelectionType = xlSpecifiedTables '.WebTables = "1" .WebFormatting = xlWebFormattingAll .RefreshStyle = xlOverwriteCells .BackgroundQuery = False .AdjustColumnWidth = True .Refresh 'BackgroundQuery:=False End With Please help and be gentle to this starter...thanks in advance. |
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If you recorded a macro while doing a refresh and without seeing
it,something like this. for each c in symbolslist ="htttp:etcetcetc"&c do your refresh thing next c -- Don Guillett SalesAid Software "quartz" wrote in message ... Great! That did the trick! Thanks so much! Now I guess if I want the data in a certain order/format, I need to just write some code to grab what I need, then loop to the next stock...any thoughts/shortcuts on this? Thanks again. "Don Guillett" wrote: Yes, how did it work for you? -- Don Guillett SalesAid Software "quartz" wrote in message ... Thanks Don. After right clicking, I selected "Export to Excel" is that right? Thanks a lot to both you and Tom for your help. "Don Guillett" wrote: In later versions of excel you can right click in the body of the web site and download to an excel file. This creates a query. Then you can record a macro while using dataedit query. Then you can see how to change the parameters in the resulting macro. -- Don Guillett SalesAid Software "Tom Ogilvy" wrote in message ... do the query manually at the yahoo site, then look at the resulting URL. -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "quartz" wrote in message ... Thanks Dick. Once I have the "URL" there is usually some short string that follows the URL that allows you to specify what stock or stocks you want data on. How do I locate that info? Can I go to "View" then "Source" and find it in the HTML code for the page? Do I have to search the provider's web site for it? How do I get that crucial bit of info? Thanks much in advance for your assistance. "Dick Kusleika" wrote: quartz Open your browser and point to the page you want. Copy the URL from the browser and paste it into your code. Don't forget to add URL; to the front if you accidently paste over it. -- Dick Kusleika MVP - Excel Excel Blog - Daily Dose of Excel www.dicks-blog.com quartz wrote: I am new at working with web queries, and I am attempting to build some code that will download stock quotes. I know that there are some canned programs out there, but I want to learn by building this myself. Some of my VERY basic code so far is below. QUESTION: The one question that I can't seem to find any discussions on is how the heck does one locate the connection string to connect, say, to Yahoo.com or to Microsoft.com to import stock info? Set qts = ActiveSheet.QueryTables Set qt = qts.Add("URL;http://www.HOW DO i FIND WHAT THE HECK GOES HERE", Application.Range(ActiveCell.Address)) With qt .WebSelectionType = xlSpecifiedTables '.WebTables = "1" .WebFormatting = xlWebFormattingAll .RefreshStyle = xlOverwriteCells .BackgroundQuery = False .AdjustColumnWidth = True .Refresh 'BackgroundQuery:=False End With Please help and be gentle to this starter...thanks in advance. |
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Exactly!
It runs really well and fast. I'm surprised how easy it is. I'm planning on using Excel as a front end for retrieving and reporting, charting, etc. The historical data will be automatically ported over to an Access DB so that trends can be tracked. Again, thanks so much! I'm like a kid with a new toy. "Don Guillett" wrote: If you recorded a macro while doing a refresh and without seeing it,something like this. for each c in symbolslist ="htttp:etcetcetc"&c do your refresh thing next c -- Don Guillett SalesAid Software "quartz" wrote in message ... Great! That did the trick! Thanks so much! Now I guess if I want the data in a certain order/format, I need to just write some code to grab what I need, then loop to the next stock...any thoughts/shortcuts on this? Thanks again. "Don Guillett" wrote: Yes, how did it work for you? -- Don Guillett SalesAid Software "quartz" wrote in message ... Thanks Don. After right clicking, I selected "Export to Excel" is that right? Thanks a lot to both you and Tom for your help. "Don Guillett" wrote: In later versions of excel you can right click in the body of the web site and download to an excel file. This creates a query. Then you can record a macro while using dataedit query. Then you can see how to change the parameters in the resulting macro. -- Don Guillett SalesAid Software "Tom Ogilvy" wrote in message ... do the query manually at the yahoo site, then look at the resulting URL. -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "quartz" wrote in message ... Thanks Dick. Once I have the "URL" there is usually some short string that follows the URL that allows you to specify what stock or stocks you want data on. How do I locate that info? Can I go to "View" then "Source" and find it in the HTML code for the page? Do I have to search the provider's web site for it? How do I get that crucial bit of info? Thanks much in advance for your assistance. "Dick Kusleika" wrote: quartz Open your browser and point to the page you want. Copy the URL from the browser and paste it into your code. Don't forget to add URL; to the front if you accidently paste over it. -- Dick Kusleika MVP - Excel Excel Blog - Daily Dose of Excel www.dicks-blog.com quartz wrote: I am new at working with web queries, and I am attempting to build some code that will download stock quotes. I know that there are some canned programs out there, but I want to learn by building this myself. Some of my VERY basic code so far is below. QUESTION: The one question that I can't seem to find any discussions on is how the heck does one locate the connection string to connect, say, to Yahoo.com or to Microsoft.com to import stock info? Set qts = ActiveSheet.QueryTables Set qt = qts.Add("URL;http://www.HOW DO i FIND WHAT THE HECK GOES HERE", Application.Range(ActiveCell.Address)) With qt .WebSelectionType = xlSpecifiedTables '.WebTables = "1" .WebFormatting = xlWebFormattingAll .RefreshStyle = xlOverwriteCells .BackgroundQuery = False .AdjustColumnWidth = True .Refresh 'BackgroundQuery:=False End With Please help and be gentle to this starter...thanks in advance. |
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Send me a copy to my email below so I can see how you did.
-- Don Guillett SalesAid Software "quartz" wrote in message ... Exactly! It runs really well and fast. I'm surprised how easy it is. I'm planning on using Excel as a front end for retrieving and reporting, charting, etc. The historical data will be automatically ported over to an Access DB so that trends can be tracked. Again, thanks so much! I'm like a kid with a new toy. "Don Guillett" wrote: If you recorded a macro while doing a refresh and without seeing it,something like this. for each c in symbolslist ="htttp:etcetcetc"&c do your refresh thing next c -- Don Guillett SalesAid Software "quartz" wrote in message ... Great! That did the trick! Thanks so much! Now I guess if I want the data in a certain order/format, I need to just write some code to grab what I need, then loop to the next stock...any thoughts/shortcuts on this? Thanks again. "Don Guillett" wrote: Yes, how did it work for you? -- Don Guillett SalesAid Software "quartz" wrote in message ... Thanks Don. After right clicking, I selected "Export to Excel" is that right? Thanks a lot to both you and Tom for your help. "Don Guillett" wrote: In later versions of excel you can right click in the body of the web site and download to an excel file. This creates a query. Then you can record a macro while using dataedit query. Then you can see how to change the parameters in the resulting macro. -- Don Guillett SalesAid Software "Tom Ogilvy" wrote in message ... do the query manually at the yahoo site, then look at the resulting URL. -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "quartz" wrote in message ... Thanks Dick. Once I have the "URL" there is usually some short string that follows the URL that allows you to specify what stock or stocks you want data on. How do I locate that info? Can I go to "View" then "Source" and find it in the HTML code for the page? Do I have to search the provider's web site for it? How do I get that crucial bit of info? Thanks much in advance for your assistance. "Dick Kusleika" wrote: quartz Open your browser and point to the page you want. Copy the URL from the browser and paste it into your code. Don't forget to add URL; to the front if you accidently paste over it. -- Dick Kusleika MVP - Excel Excel Blog - Daily Dose of Excel www.dicks-blog.com quartz wrote: I am new at working with web queries, and I am attempting to build some code that will download stock quotes. I know that there are some canned programs out there, but I want to learn by building this myself. Some of my VERY basic code so far is below. QUESTION: The one question that I can't seem to find any discussions on is how the heck does one locate the connection string to connect, say, to Yahoo.com or to Microsoft.com to import stock info? Set qts = ActiveSheet.QueryTables Set qt = qts.Add("URL;http://www.HOW DO i FIND WHAT THE HECK GOES HERE", Application.Range(ActiveCell.Address)) With qt .WebSelectionType = xlSpecifiedTables '.WebTables = "1" .WebFormatting = xlWebFormattingAll .RefreshStyle = xlOverwriteCells .BackgroundQuery = False .AdjustColumnWidth = True .Refresh 'BackgroundQuery:=False End With Please help and be gentle to this starter...thanks in advance. |
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Sure. I'm just building it and I have a 2-week vacation coming soon. So it
may be awhile, but I will make a note to e-mail you a copy. Don't be surprised in a couple months to get this thing out of the blue! "Don Guillett" wrote: Send me a copy to my email below so I can see how you did. -- Don Guillett SalesAid Software "quartz" wrote in message ... Exactly! It runs really well and fast. I'm surprised how easy it is. I'm planning on using Excel as a front end for retrieving and reporting, charting, etc. The historical data will be automatically ported over to an Access DB so that trends can be tracked. Again, thanks so much! I'm like a kid with a new toy. "Don Guillett" wrote: If you recorded a macro while doing a refresh and without seeing it,something like this. for each c in symbolslist ="htttp:etcetcetc"&c do your refresh thing next c -- Don Guillett SalesAid Software "quartz" wrote in message ... Great! That did the trick! Thanks so much! Now I guess if I want the data in a certain order/format, I need to just write some code to grab what I need, then loop to the next stock...any thoughts/shortcuts on this? Thanks again. "Don Guillett" wrote: Yes, how did it work for you? -- Don Guillett SalesAid Software "quartz" wrote in message ... Thanks Don. After right clicking, I selected "Export to Excel" is that right? Thanks a lot to both you and Tom for your help. "Don Guillett" wrote: In later versions of excel you can right click in the body of the web site and download to an excel file. This creates a query. Then you can record a macro while using dataedit query. Then you can see how to change the parameters in the resulting macro. -- Don Guillett SalesAid Software "Tom Ogilvy" wrote in message ... do the query manually at the yahoo site, then look at the resulting URL. -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "quartz" wrote in message ... Thanks Dick. Once I have the "URL" there is usually some short string that follows the URL that allows you to specify what stock or stocks you want data on. How do I locate that info? Can I go to "View" then "Source" and find it in the HTML code for the page? Do I have to search the provider's web site for it? How do I get that crucial bit of info? Thanks much in advance for your assistance. "Dick Kusleika" wrote: quartz Open your browser and point to the page you want. Copy the URL from the browser and paste it into your code. Don't forget to add URL; to the front if you accidently paste over it. -- Dick Kusleika MVP - Excel Excel Blog - Daily Dose of Excel www.dicks-blog.com quartz wrote: I am new at working with web queries, and I am attempting to build some code that will download stock quotes. I know that there are some canned programs out there, but I want to learn by building this myself. Some of my VERY basic code so far is below. QUESTION: The one question that I can't seem to find any discussions on is how the heck does one locate the connection string to connect, say, to Yahoo.com or to Microsoft.com to import stock info? Set qts = ActiveSheet.QueryTables Set qt = qts.Add("URL;http://www.HOW DO i FIND WHAT THE HECK GOES HERE", Application.Range(ActiveCell.Address)) With qt .WebSelectionType = xlSpecifiedTables '.WebTables = "1" .WebFormatting = xlWebFormattingAll .RefreshStyle = xlOverwriteCells .BackgroundQuery = False .AdjustColumnWidth = True .Refresh 'BackgroundQuery:=False End With Please help and be gentle to this starter...thanks in advance. |
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I'd be careful about using WebQueries for anything serious. I have been using
them for more than 6 months now in Excel 2003, and 2 days ago my query suddenly stopped working. You get a silly error message "The internet site reports that a connection was established but the data is not available". Nothing about this error in the Knowledge Base. There are about 20 posts about this problem in several MSDN newsgroups, and nobody ever got an answer that solved their problem. The only answer I saw is "make sure your URL includes .html". "quartz" wrote: I am new at working with web queries, and I am attempting to build some code that will download stock quotes. I know that there are some canned programs out there, but I want to learn by building this myself. Some of my VERY basic code so far is below. QUESTION: The one question that I can't seem to find any discussions on is how the heck does one locate the connection string to connect, say, to Yahoo.com or to Microsoft.com to import stock info? Set qts = ActiveSheet.QueryTables Set qt = qts.Add("URL;http://www.HOW DO i FIND WHAT THE HECK GOES HERE", Application.Range(ActiveCell.Address)) With qt .WebSelectionType = xlSpecifiedTables '.WebTables = "1" .WebFormatting = xlWebFormattingAll .RefreshStyle = xlOverwriteCells .BackgroundQuery = False .AdjustColumnWidth = True .Refresh 'BackgroundQuery:=False End With Please help and be gentle to this starter...thanks in advance. |
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Might be because the site changed. goto it manually and see what you get.
-- Don Guillett SalesAid Software "James" wrote in message ... I'd be careful about using WebQueries for anything serious. I have been using them for more than 6 months now in Excel 2003, and 2 days ago my query suddenly stopped working. You get a silly error message "The internet site reports that a connection was established but the data is not available". Nothing about this error in the Knowledge Base. There are about 20 posts about this problem in several MSDN newsgroups, and nobody ever got an answer that solved their problem. The only answer I saw is "make sure your URL includes .html". "quartz" wrote: I am new at working with web queries, and I am attempting to build some code that will download stock quotes. I know that there are some canned programs out there, but I want to learn by building this myself. Some of my VERY basic code so far is below. QUESTION: The one question that I can't seem to find any discussions on is how the heck does one locate the connection string to connect, say, to Yahoo.com or to Microsoft.com to import stock info? Set qts = ActiveSheet.QueryTables Set qt = qts.Add("URL;http://www.HOW DO i FIND WHAT THE HECK GOES HERE", Application.Range(ActiveCell.Address)) With qt .WebSelectionType = xlSpecifiedTables '.WebTables = "1" .WebFormatting = xlWebFormattingAll .RefreshStyle = xlOverwriteCells .BackgroundQuery = False .AdjustColumnWidth = True .Refresh 'BackgroundQuery:=False End With Please help and be gentle to this starter...thanks in advance. |
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How locate connection information for web query?
The site was never changed for my case..yesterday, the xp computer
did a windows update automatically without my knowledge and the site I used to query for years returned this same message that there was no data.. I know it is due to critcal security updates of the service packs.. I am still trying to find a quick solution without me having to re-install or repair the xp window operating system...Any help would be appreciated "Don Guillett" wrote in message ... Might be because the site changed. goto it manually and see what you get. -- Don Guillett SalesAid Software "James" wrote in message ... I'd be careful about using WebQueries for anything serious. I have been using them for more than 6 months now in Excel 2003, and 2 days ago my query suddenly stopped working. You get a silly error message "The internet site reports that a connection was established but the data is not available". Nothing about this error in the Knowledge Base. There are about 20 posts about this problem in several MSDN newsgroups, and nobody ever got an answer that solved their problem. The only answer I saw is "make sure your URL includes .html". "quartz" wrote: I am new at working with web queries, and I am attempting to build some code that will download stock quotes. I know that there are some canned programs out there, but I want to learn by building this myself. Some of my VERY basic code so far is below. QUESTION: The one question that I can't seem to find any discussions on is how the heck does one locate the connection string to connect, say, to Yahoo.com or to Microsoft.com to import stock info? Set qts = ActiveSheet.QueryTables Set qt = qts.Add("URL;http://www.HOW DO i FIND WHAT THE HECK GOES HERE", Application.Range(ActiveCell.Address)) With qt .WebSelectionType = xlSpecifiedTables '.WebTables = "1" .WebFormatting = xlWebFormattingAll .RefreshStyle = xlOverwriteCells .BackgroundQuery = False .AdjustColumnWidth = True .Refresh 'BackgroundQuery:=False End With Please help and be gentle to this starter...thanks in advance. |
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Maybe the site changed, but not in a way that I noticed. Could be cookies or
ads. The site is MSN's moneycentral.com, and I get my quotes manually just the same as 6 months ago. http://moneycentral.msn.com/scripts/...mbol=CAL%2CGLW Besides, in the "Edit Web Query" dialog, I can navigate to the page and see the table I need, without the yellow arrows and the "Import" button is disabled. I then have to click the yellow-arrow-red-cross icon twice, and the yellow arrows appear plus the "Import" button becomes enabled. Then, when I select the table I need and click Import, I get the error again. "Don Guillett" wrote: Might be because the site changed. goto it manually and see what you get. -- Don Guillett SalesAid Software "James" wrote in message ... I'd be careful about using WebQueries for anything serious. I have been using them for more than 6 months now in Excel 2003, and 2 days ago my query suddenly stopped working. You get a silly error message "The internet site reports that a connection was established but the data is not available". Nothing about this error in the Knowledge Base. There are about 20 posts about this problem in several MSDN newsgroups, and nobody ever got an answer that solved their problem. The only answer I saw is "make sure your URL includes .html". "quartz" wrote: I am new at working with web queries, and I am attempting to build some code that will download stock quotes. I know that there are some canned programs out there, but I want to learn by building this myself. Some of my VERY basic code so far is below. QUESTION: The one question that I can't seem to find any discussions on is how the heck does one locate the connection string to connect, say, to Yahoo.com or to Microsoft.com to import stock info? Set qts = ActiveSheet.QueryTables Set qt = qts.Add("URL;http://www.HOW DO i FIND WHAT THE HECK GOES HERE", Application.Range(ActiveCell.Address)) With qt .WebSelectionType = xlSpecifiedTables '.WebTables = "1" .WebFormatting = xlWebFormattingAll .RefreshStyle = xlOverwriteCells .BackgroundQuery = False .AdjustColumnWidth = True .Refresh 'BackgroundQuery:=False End With Please help and be gentle to this starter...thanks in advance. |
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Goto internet explorertoolsinternet optionssecurity(near the
bottom)uncheck "do not save encrypted pages to disk"applyOK -- Don Guillett SalesAid Software "James" wrote in message ... Maybe the site changed, but not in a way that I noticed. Could be cookies or ads. The site is MSN's moneycentral.com, and I get my quotes manually just the same as 6 months ago. http://moneycentral.msn.com/scripts/...mbol=CAL%2CGLW Besides, in the "Edit Web Query" dialog, I can navigate to the page and see the table I need, without the yellow arrows and the "Import" button is disabled. I then have to click the yellow-arrow-red-cross icon twice, and the yellow arrows appear plus the "Import" button becomes enabled. Then, when I select the table I need and click Import, I get the error again. "Don Guillett" wrote: Might be because the site changed. goto it manually and see what you get. -- Don Guillett SalesAid Software "James" wrote in message ... I'd be careful about using WebQueries for anything serious. I have been using them for more than 6 months now in Excel 2003, and 2 days ago my query suddenly stopped working. You get a silly error message "The internet site reports that a connection was established but the data is not available". Nothing about this error in the Knowledge Base. There are about 20 posts about this problem in several MSDN newsgroups, and nobody ever got an answer that solved their problem. The only answer I saw is "make sure your URL includes .html". "quartz" wrote: I am new at working with web queries, and I am attempting to build some code that will download stock quotes. I know that there are some canned programs out there, but I want to learn by building this myself. Some of my VERY basic code so far is below. QUESTION: The one question that I can't seem to find any discussions on is how the heck does one locate the connection string to connect, say, to Yahoo.com or to Microsoft.com to import stock info? Set qts = ActiveSheet.QueryTables Set qt = qts.Add("URL;http://www.HOW DO i FIND WHAT THE HECK GOES HERE", Application.Range(ActiveCell.Address)) With qt .WebSelectionType = xlSpecifiedTables '.WebTables = "1" .WebFormatting = xlWebFormattingAll .RefreshStyle = xlOverwriteCells .BackgroundQuery = False .AdjustColumnWidth = True .Refresh 'BackgroundQuery:=False End With Please help and be gentle to this starter...thanks in advance. |
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I'll be sure to try that in a couple of days when I get back to my home PC.
Sounds weird though, afaik the MSN page isn't encrypted. "Don Guillett" wrote: Goto internet explorertoolsinternet optionssecurity(near the bottom)uncheck "do not save encrypted pages to disk"applyOK -- Don Guillett SalesAid Software "James" wrote in message ... Maybe the site changed, but not in a way that I noticed. Could be cookies or ads. The site is MSN's moneycentral.com, and I get my quotes manually just the same as 6 months ago. http://moneycentral.msn.com/scripts/...mbol=CAL%2CGLW Besides, in the "Edit Web Query" dialog, I can navigate to the page and see the table I need, without the yellow arrows and the "Import" button is disabled. I then have to click the yellow-arrow-red-cross icon twice, and the yellow arrows appear plus the "Import" button becomes enabled. Then, when I select the table I need and click Import, I get the error again. "Don Guillett" wrote: Might be because the site changed. goto it manually and see what you get. -- Don Guillett SalesAid Software "James" wrote in message ... I'd be careful about using WebQueries for anything serious. I have been using them for more than 6 months now in Excel 2003, and 2 days ago my query suddenly stopped working. You get a silly error message "The internet site reports that a connection was established but the data is not available". Nothing about this error in the Knowledge Base. There are about 20 posts about this problem in several MSDN newsgroups, and nobody ever got an answer that solved their problem. The only answer I saw is "make sure your URL includes .html". "quartz" wrote: I am new at working with web queries, and I am attempting to build some code that will download stock quotes. I know that there are some canned programs out there, but I want to learn by building this myself. Some of my VERY basic code so far is below. QUESTION: The one question that I can't seem to find any discussions on is how the heck does one locate the connection string to connect, say, to Yahoo.com or to Microsoft.com to import stock info? Set qts = ActiveSheet.QueryTables Set qt = qts.Add("URL;http://www.HOW DO i FIND WHAT THE HECK GOES HERE", Application.Range(ActiveCell.Address)) With qt .WebSelectionType = xlSpecifiedTables '.WebTables = "1" .WebFormatting = xlWebFormattingAll .RefreshStyle = xlOverwriteCells .BackgroundQuery = False .AdjustColumnWidth = True .Refresh 'BackgroundQuery:=False End With Please help and be gentle to this starter...thanks in advance. |
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How locate connection information for web query?
I just made the test:
- from the office, do not save encrypted pages set: worked - from home, do not save encrypted pages set: did not work - from home, do not save encrypted pages cleared: work (I was amazed at this stage) - tried again, do not save encrypted pages cleared: worked again - tried again, this time with do not save encrypted pages set: worked again !!! = disappointment. So, what it looks to me is either it is a "random" phenomenon, or moneycentral has some add server with an add rotator that appears only once in a while and screws up things. Since I have an add blocker, I cannot tell which it is. In conclusion, I'm going to look into writing a program to pull the quotes in plain html text and forget about Excel. Anybody here knows a way of getting the html string served by a web site? I used to be VB programmer, but the WebBrowser object doesn't navigate outside of your domain since IE 6.0. "Don Guillett" wrote: Goto internet explorertoolsinternet optionssecurity(near the bottom)uncheck "do not save encrypted pages to disk"applyOK -- Don Guillett SalesAid Software "James" wrote in message ... Maybe the site changed, but not in a way that I noticed. Could be cookies or ads. The site is MSN's moneycentral.com, and I get my quotes manually just the same as 6 months ago. http://moneycentral.msn.com/scripts/...mbol=CAL%2CGLW Besides, in the "Edit Web Query" dialog, I can navigate to the page and see the table I need, without the yellow arrows and the "Import" button is disabled. I then have to click the yellow-arrow-red-cross icon twice, and the yellow arrows appear plus the "Import" button becomes enabled. Then, when I select the table I need and click Import, I get the error again. "Don Guillett" wrote: Might be because the site changed. goto it manually and see what you get. -- Don Guillett SalesAid Software "James" wrote in message ... I'd be careful about using WebQueries for anything serious. I have been using them for more than 6 months now in Excel 2003, and 2 days ago my query suddenly stopped working. You get a silly error message "The internet site reports that a connection was established but the data is not available". Nothing about this error in the Knowledge Base. There are about 20 posts about this problem in several MSDN newsgroups, and nobody ever got an answer that solved their problem. The only answer I saw is "make sure your URL includes .html". "quartz" wrote: I am new at working with web queries, and I am attempting to build some code that will download stock quotes. I know that there are some canned programs out there, but I want to learn by building this myself. Some of my VERY basic code so far is below. QUESTION: The one question that I can't seem to find any discussions on is how the heck does one locate the connection string to connect, say, to Yahoo.com or to Microsoft.com to import stock info? Set qts = ActiveSheet.QueryTables Set qt = qts.Add("URL;http://www.HOW DO i FIND WHAT THE HECK GOES HERE", Application.Range(ActiveCell.Address)) With qt .WebSelectionType = xlSpecifiedTables '.WebTables = "1" .WebFormatting = xlWebFormattingAll .RefreshStyle = xlOverwriteCells .BackgroundQuery = False .AdjustColumnWidth = True .Refresh 'BackgroundQuery:=False End With Please help and be gentle to this starter...thanks in advance. |
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How locate connection information for web query?
Use Yahoo!
-- Don Guillett SalesAid Software "James" wrote in message ... I just made the test: - from the office, do not save encrypted pages set: worked - from home, do not save encrypted pages set: did not work - from home, do not save encrypted pages cleared: work (I was amazed at this stage) - tried again, do not save encrypted pages cleared: worked again - tried again, this time with do not save encrypted pages set: worked again !!! = disappointment. So, what it looks to me is either it is a "random" phenomenon, or moneycentral has some add server with an add rotator that appears only once in a while and screws up things. Since I have an add blocker, I cannot tell which it is. In conclusion, I'm going to look into writing a program to pull the quotes in plain html text and forget about Excel. Anybody here knows a way of getting the html string served by a web site? I used to be VB programmer, but the WebBrowser object doesn't navigate outside of your domain since IE 6.0. "Don Guillett" wrote: Goto internet explorertoolsinternet optionssecurity(near the bottom)uncheck "do not save encrypted pages to disk"applyOK -- Don Guillett SalesAid Software "James" wrote in message ... Maybe the site changed, but not in a way that I noticed. Could be cookies or ads. The site is MSN's moneycentral.com, and I get my quotes manually just the same as 6 months ago. http://moneycentral.msn.com/scripts/...mbol=CAL%2CGLW Besides, in the "Edit Web Query" dialog, I can navigate to the page and see the table I need, without the yellow arrows and the "Import" button is disabled. I then have to click the yellow-arrow-red-cross icon twice, and the yellow arrows appear plus the "Import" button becomes enabled. Then, when I select the table I need and click Import, I get the error again. "Don Guillett" wrote: Might be because the site changed. goto it manually and see what you get. -- Don Guillett SalesAid Software "James" wrote in message ... I'd be careful about using WebQueries for anything serious. I have been using them for more than 6 months now in Excel 2003, and 2 days ago my query suddenly stopped working. You get a silly error message "The internet site reports that a connection was established but the data is not available". Nothing about this error in the Knowledge Base. There are about 20 posts about this problem in several MSDN newsgroups, and nobody ever got an answer that solved their problem. The only answer I saw is "make sure your URL includes .html". "quartz" wrote: I am new at working with web queries, and I am attempting to build some code that will download stock quotes. I know that there are some canned programs out there, but I want to learn by building this myself. Some of my VERY basic code so far is below. QUESTION: The one question that I can't seem to find any discussions on is how the heck does one locate the connection string to connect, say, to Yahoo.com or to Microsoft.com to import stock info? Set qts = ActiveSheet.QueryTables Set qt = qts.Add("URL;http://www.HOW DO i FIND WHAT THE HECK GOES HERE", Application.Range(ActiveCell.Address)) With qt .WebSelectionType = xlSpecifiedTables '.WebTables = "1" .WebFormatting = xlWebFormattingAll .RefreshStyle = xlOverwriteCells .BackgroundQuery = False .AdjustColumnWidth = True .Refresh 'BackgroundQuery:=False End With Please help and be gentle to this starter...thanks in advance. |
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