[AccessD] Web scraping and browser automation

[Martin]

Might be to simple for you John but this is using Excel and Edge. I just
looked it up.

https://oxylabs.io/blog/web-scraping-excel-vba

Firefox

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41299432/vba-script-to-interact-with-firefox-browser


Martin


On Sun, 10 Sept 2023, 20:25 John Colby, <jwcolby at gmail.com> wrote:

> Many years ago I did web scraping.  I looked behind the scene for stuff to
> denote what I was looking for, grabbed that stuff and processed it.
> Today I am interested in scraping a specific web site, clicking on
> something to bring up another screen, scrape that, click the back button,
> rinse and repeat.  With outlook that was moderately easy, however I am
> baffled on how to do it with edge or chrome or firefox.
>
> Is anyone doing this kind of thing and have any words of wisdom?
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