Getting data from HTML source in VBA (excel) - html

Question

I'm trying to collect data from a website, which should be manageable once the source is in string form. Looking around I've assembled some possible solutions but have run into problems with all of them:
Use InternetExplorer.Application to open the url and then access the inner HTML
Inet
use Shell command to run wget
Here are the problems I'm having:
When I store the innerHTML into a string, it's not the entire source, only a fraction
ActiveX does not allow the creation of the Inet object (error 429)
I've got the htm into a folder on my computer, how do I get it into a string in VBA?
Code for 1:
Sub getData()
Dim url As String, ie As Object, state As Integer
Dim text As Variant, startS As Integer, endS As Integer
Set ie = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
ie.Visible = 0
url = "http://www.eoddata.com/stockquote/NASDAQ/AAPL.htm"
ie.Navigate url
state = 0
Do Until state = 4
DoEvents
state = ie.readyState
Loop
text = ie.Document.Body.innerHTML
startS = InStr(ie.Document.Body.innerHTML, "7/26/2012")
endS = InStr(ie.Document.Body.innerHTML, "7/25/2012")
text = Mid(ie.Document.Body.innerHTML, startS, endS - startS)
MsgBox text

Answer 1

If I were trying to pull the opening price off from 08/10/12 off of that page, which is similar to what I assume you are doing, I'd do something like this:
Set ie = New InternetExplorer
With ie
.navigate "http://eoddata.com/stockquote/NASDAQ/AAPL.htm"
.Visible = False
While .Busy Or .readyState <> READYSTATE_COMPLETE
DoEvents
Wend
Set objHTML = .document
DoEvents
End With
Set elementONE = objHTML.getElementsByTagName("TD")
For i = 1 To elementONE.Length
elementTWO = elementONE.Item(i).innerText
If elementTWO = "08/10/12" Then
MsgBox (elementONE.Item(i + 1).innerText)
Exit For
End If
Next i
DoEvents
ie.Quit
DoEvents
Set ie = Nothing
You can modify this to run through the HTML and pull whatever data you want. Iteration +2 would return the high price, etc.
Since there are a lot of dates on that page you might also want to make it check that it is between the Recent End of Day Prices and the Company profile.