What you'll learn
Welcome in Part1 of this VBA Selenium course. Please note what we are covering in this part1
How to use Selenium library inside Excel VBA Editor to scrape websites which supports major browsers like chrome, mozilla, firefox , edge etc.
We are using chrome browser in this series to scrape website elements but you will know how to use other browsers as well.
How to download selenium library and what is the procedure to download browser webdrivers
How to navigate websites using chrome browsers
Learn how to use attributes ID & name or classes to enter a value in search box or text boxes.
Which attribute should you use and why. How to use find function on website for manual search and why it is important to be familiar with this method.
How to click the buttons using attributes like id, name , classname
How to work with tags like A tags and their attribute href.
Also, learn how to use html in notepad and create webpages. It will help you in visualizing the things.
Know how tables are designed on websites and how we can export every table in one go. Know table tags
Know table rows tags and how to work with every or one specific rows and export whatever you need.
Know table headers and table data tags like th and td. Learn how to locate specific td tag
What are collection loops used to scrape tables OR how to scrape one specific table only.
What if user wants to see data for few clients only out of 1000s rows. How to control these tables from excel where user enters the names.
What is the fundamental difference between web element and its collection elements.
Why and where we need SET Keyword and where to avoid it. Proper explanation given.
Using send keys and enter if search button is unable to search data for you.
How to use Header or Rows count property in code to handle them together. Its an amazing approach.
How to use Xpath to enter keywords in input boxes and how we can click on search buttons using xpath
How to read Xpath DOM structure, A proper explanation is given.
How to use Xpath to scrape tables.
How to work with tags like headers - H1,H2,H3 on individual levels and using Xpath method and its benefits.
How to understand VBA Errors if they pop up on screen instead going on google.
How to work with listbox with single property or multiple property.
How to work with drop down using index, text and values property.
Your questions and projects also discussed. Go inside one page drop down and then inside second one.
Description
In this Part1 you shall learn below written things. Please go through them.
We are going to learn Webscraping using google chrome and it will be done using selenium library.
Learn how to download selenium and browser drivers to first initially do the setup.
How work with attributes like name, id using findelement methods.
How to work with tags like A tag and its attribute href to click on the links.
How to use class attribute and is it a good approach to use class attribute.
how to work with Xpath to insert the data into textboxes and click on search buttons. Not just use but understand the structure of Xpath as well.
Learn how we can change the xpath elements by their indexes.
How to work with header tags like h1 or h2 or h3 using normal way and using xpath.
How to run the collection loops and why we need it and when we can avoid using collection loops.
What is difference between Web-element and Webelements and why we use set word for collection elements and not for single object.
How to click on links on webpage using link -text and partial link text property. Based on this knowledge one mini project -how to load website by default on current date.
How to scrape tables and its rows and rows data values and table headers.
Collection loops design and execution from very start while working with tables.
Do you like to export all tables in a website or do you want to scrape one specific table only, How to reach out to specific index of a table then.
How to scrape specific rows inside one specific table . Know your "tr' tags.
How to scrape all data insider rows or just one specific data value using td tag. Its awesome when you have so much control.
How to export tables with out running collection loops and what is the difference between direct export and export using loops. You must know.
How to work with li tags inside unordered and ordered lists.
Know how to insert a value in drop down or combo-boxes .
How to select items in list box with single select property or multi select property.
Learn to select or de-select listbox options using collection loops or without the loops.
How to alter the collection elements by referring to one object and second inside the first one and so on.
Who this course is for:
If you are Business analyst and want to learn how to scrape websites using chrome or other major browsers.
If you like to export website tables into excel. If you like to click on website links or fill up a form or download the files etc.

Homepage

https://www.udemy.com/course/vba-selenium-web-scraping-part-12/