Linking to specific tables in web data

Greetings, and might I say a hearty hello to new faces. I'm new to this
forum, and this is my first post.

I have a bit of a dilemma. I know what I want, just not how to get
there.

I need to dump data from a particular table on several consecutive web
pages (html docs declared in a text file and the table has the same id
on each page) into consecutive cells. An example shown below:

'table1' is where the data is located on each page.
http://asite.com/001.html[table1] --> dump to $A$1
http://asite.com/002.html[table1] --> dump to $A$2
http://asite.com/005.html[table1] --> dump to $A$3
....
....
....
etc.

Like I said, all the html documents are declared in a separate text
file. So I imagine it would entail assigning a variable to line 1 in
the text file, taking that variable and gathering the table1 data from
it (which is the part I don't know), dump that to A1, and then reassign
the variable to line 2. I know this means a loop statement, and I know
how to get the data from the text file. It's getting the data from the
table1 on each instance of the variable that's a little perplexing.
Then dumping that data to the next cell in the column. Perhaps I just
haven't looked hard enough... or maybe I need to take this apart piece
by piece and examine it that way, and write the code by pieces first
(sorry, going off into my world again).

Anyway, I don't want the whole code, I just want an idea of what I
might be able to do in this situation. Don't spare the programming
jargon either. I know enough about vb to understand what's said. It
may help me in the long run anyway.

Thanks in advance.




--
bleachlizard

1. record a macro (webquerymacro) that uses a webquery to get the data from
one website
2. write a second macro (loopingmacro) that loops through file names in your
list of websites file
3. in the looping macro thereshould be 3 lines of code...
dim websiteURL as string
for each URL in sourcefile
websiteURL = filename[n]
call webquerymacro
next

from your application use a button to call looping macro to get your results

"bleachlizard" wrote:

>
> Greetings, and might I say a hearty hello to new faces. I'm new to this
> forum, and this is my first post.
>
> I have a bit of a dilemma. I know what I want, just not how to get
> there.
>
> I need to dump data from a particular table on several consecutive web
> pages (html docs declared in a text file and the table has the same id
> on each page) into consecutive cells. An example shown below:
>
> 'table1' is where the data is located on each page.
> http://asite.com/001.html[table1] --> dump to $A$1
> http://asite.com/002.html[table1] --> dump to $A$2
> http://asite.com/005.html[table1] --> dump to $A$3
> ....
> ....
> ....
> etc.
>
> Like I said, all the html documents are declared in a separate text
> file. So I imagine it would entail assigning a variable to line 1 in
> the text file, taking that variable and gathering the table1 data from
> it (which is the part I don't know), dump that to A1, and then reassign
> the variable to line 2. I know this means a loop statement, and I know
> how to get the data from the text file. It's getting the data from the
> table1 on each instance of the variable that's a little perplexing.
> Then dumping that data to the next cell in the column. Perhaps I just
> haven't looked hard enough... or maybe I need to take this apart piece
> by piece and examine it that way, and write the code by pieces first
> (sorry, going off into my world again).
>
> Anyway, I don't want the whole code, I just want an idea of what I
> might be able to do in this situation. Don't spare the programming
> jargon either. I know enough about vb to understand what's said. It
> may help me in the long run anyway.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
>
> --
> bleachlizard
>