HTML & VBA Visual Basic automatic input website - html

Question

My company has a "link" I can go to... http://blablabla... where there is a box where I can enter an 8 digit number (next to the box it says lot name) and a button where I can click view report. That's it. That's all that's on the page. (input box and a view report button)
I have a list of numbers in excel in cell range B3:B7 for example (10378851, 10378857, 10488213, etc. )
I want to open excel and run a code that automatically goes to the website, automatically inputs the first number, automatically "clicks" the view report button.
Then there will be an "export data button" - I want to automatically click which will have a drop down (csv, txt, excel, etc.) I want to automatically select "excel"
I found a site that explains how to do something similar but I am stuck.
Sub GetTable()
Dim ieApp As InternetExplorer
Dim ieDoc As Object
Dim ieTable As Object
Dim clip As DataObject
'create a new instance of ie
Set ieApp = New InternetExplorer
'you don’t need this, but it’s good for debugging
ieApp.Visible = True
'assume we’re not logged in and just go directly to the login page
ieApp.Navigate "http://severe-frost-552.heroku.com/login"
Do While ieApp.Busy: DoEvents: Loop
Do Until ieApp.ReadyState = READYSTATE_COMPLETE: DoEvents: Loop
Set ieDoc = ieApp.Document
'fill in the login form – View Source from your browser to get the control names
With ieDoc.forms(0)
.login.Value = "dailydose"
.Password.Value = "password"
.submit
End With
Do While ieApp.Busy: DoEvents: Loop
Do Until ieApp.ReadyState = READYSTATE_COMPLETE: DoEvents: Loop
'now that we’re in, the rest of this code isn't relevant because it copied a table of data...
Here is the website...
http://dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2011/03/08/get-data-from-website-that-requires-a-login/
As you can see, there source code says:
<form action="/session" method="post"><div style="margin:0;padding:0;display:in...
<input id="login" name="login" type="text" /></p>
I think that is where they are getting this part of their code:
With ieDoc.forms(0)
.login.Value = "dailydose"
Looking at my websites source code, it looks like I have:
<DIV id=ReportViewerControl_ctl04_ctl03><INPUT id=ReportViewerControl_ctl04_ctl03_txtValue class=null style= size=30 name=ReportViewerControl$ctl04$ctl03$txtValue> </DIV>
<INPUT id=ReportViewerControl_ctl04_ctl03_txtValue class=null style= size=30 name=ReportViewerControl$ctl04$ctl03$txtValue>
I think this is the right area of the code because when I type "hello" into the input box it shows up there like this:
<INPUT id=ReportViewerControl_ctl04_ctl03_txtValue class=null style= size=30 value=Hello name=ReportViewerControl$ctl04$ctl03$txtValue>
This is much different than the simple example... I am not sure how to code this input in my code...

Answer 1

you can try this:
ieDoc.ReportViewerControl_ctl04_ctl03_txt.Value = "Hello"
and if that does not work:
ieDoc.getElementById("ReportViewerControl_ctl04_ctl03_txt").Value = "Hello"
disclaimer: I have not tested the code
hint: what you are "playing" with is called "web-scraping". You can find decent examples here