Excel VBA/JSON to scrape UPS tracking delivery - json

Question

Thanks to the help and code from #QHarr I have got the tracking info from Fedex, DHL and Startrack working. I have been trying to use his code and the UPS tracking Web Service Developer Guide and Tracking JSON Developer Guides to get UPS to work as well within Excel. The JSON converter code is from here https://github.com/VBA-tools/VBA-JSON/blob/master/JsonConverter.bas
The code I have tried is as follows
Public Function GetUPSDeliveryDate(ByVal id As String) As String
Dim body As String, json As Object
body = "data={""TrackPackagesRequest"":{""appType"":""WTRK"",""appDeviceType"":""DESKTOP"",""supportHTML"":true,""supportCurrentLocation"":true,""uniqueKey"":"""",""processingParameters"":{},""trackingInfoList"":[{""trackNumberInfo"":{""trackingNumber"":" & Chr$(34) & id & Chr$(34) & ",""trackingQualifier"":"""",""trackingCarrier"":""""}}]}}"
body = body & "&action=trackpackages&locale=en_AU&version=1&format=json"
With CreateObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP")
.Open "POST", "http://wwwapps.ups.com/WebTracking", False
.setRequestHeader "Referer", "https://www.ups.com/track?loc=en_AU&tracknum=" & id
.setRequestHeader "User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0"
.setRequestHeader "X-Requested-With", "XMLHttpRequest"
.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8"
.send body
Set json = JSONConverter.ParseJson(.responseText)
End With
GetUPSDeliveryDate = Format$(json("ResponseStatus")("ShipmentType")(1)("DeliveryDate"), "dddd, mmm dd, yyyy")
End Function
I am not getting any errors in the code per-say, but when I use the =GetUPSDeliveryDate() function I am getting a #VALUE! response instead of the delivered date of 7th May 2019, so I am guessing I have got the following bit wrong
GetUPSDeliveryDate = Format$(json("ResponseStatus")("ShipmentType")(1)("DeliveryDate"), "dddd, mmm dd, yyyy")
I have also tried the following, but no luck.
If json("results")(1)("delivery")("status") = "delivered" Then
GetUPSDeliveryDate = json("results")(1)("checkpoints")(1)("date")
Else
GetUPSDeliveryDate = vbNullString
End If
A sample UPS tracking number is 1Z740YX80140148107
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

Answer 1

The following is by mimicking of this UPS tracking site. The json parser used is jsonconverter.bas: Download raw code from here and add to standard module called jsonConverter . You then need to go VBE > Tools > References > Add reference to Microsoft Scripting Runtime.
Option Explicit
Public Sub test()
Debug.Print GetUPSDeliveryDate("1Z740YX80140148107")
End Sub
Public Function GetUPSDeliveryDate(ByVal id As String) As String
Dim body As String, json As Object
body = "{""Locale"":""en_US"",""TrackingNumber"":[""" & id & """]}"
With CreateObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP")
.Open "POST", "https://www.ups.com/track/api/Track/GetStatus?loc=en_US", False
.setRequestHeader "Referer", "https://www.ups.com/track?loc=en_US&requester=ST/"
.setRequestHeader "User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0"
.setRequestHeader "DNT", "1"
.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "application/json"
.setRequestHeader "Accept", "application/json, text/plain, */*"
.send body
Set json = JsonConverter.ParseJson(.responseText)
End With
If json("trackDetails")(1)("packageStatus") = "Delivered" Then
GetUPSDeliveryDate = json("trackDetails")(1)("deliveredDate")
Else
GetUPSDeliveryDate = "Not yet delivered"
End If
End Function
The Tracking Web Service Developer Guide.pdf contains all you need to know to set up using the official tracking API.