Extract Image URL(s) from eBay.co.uk Listings

razzandy

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Hi Guys, its been a while!

I have a list of eBay item numbers, lets say in Column A and I want to read down the list of item numbers and extract the Image URL(s) into Column B Separated by a Comma. The image URL are like this: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/-DcAAOSwzrxUwnIS/s-l500.jpg and they all start with https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/ and end with s-l500.jpg but some listing may have 1 photo and other may have 10 photos. I have inspected the HMTL and found they appear like this: <div class="ux-image-carousel-item active image" data-idx="0"> with each extra image the: data-idx="0" increases by 1.

Thanks in advance (y)
 

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To do the job you need the "Selenium environment" that should be installed on your computer.
If you are interested, you'll find the instruction on how installing it in this message: extract data from web to inside sheet without open website &refersh

After the installation you should be able to open Ebay using Chrome, access the elements and scrape some information via macro.
For example, using this macro:
Code:
Sub EbaySel()
Dim WPage As Object
Dim PColl As Object, PPUrl As String
Dim I As Long, J As Long
'
Set WPage = CreateObject("Selenium.WebDriver")
WPage.Start "chrome"
For I = 2 To Cells(Rows.Count, "A").End(xlUp).Row
    WPage.Get Cells(I, 1)
    WPage.Wait 500
    Set PColl = WPage.FindElementsByClass("ux-image-carousel-item")
    For J = 1 To PColl.Count
        PPUrl = PColl(J).FindElementByTag("img").Attribute("src")
        If Len(PPUrl) < 5 Then PPUrl = PColl(J).FindElementByTag("img").Attribute("data-src")
        Debug.Print J, PPUrl
        Cells(I, 2 + J).Clear
        Cells(I, 2 + J).Value = PPUrl
        ActiveSheet.Hyperlinks.Add anchor:=Cells(I, 2 + J), Address:=PPUrl
        DoEvents
    Next J
Next I
Set WPage = Nothing
MsgBox ("Completed")
End Sub
Copy the code into a standard module of your vba project. Then you need to create a list of items to be searched in column A, then run Sub EbaySel.
It will open Chrome, navigate to each of the urls, copy on column C and subsequents the picture url and set a hyperlink to the url

As shown in the attached picture
 

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To do the job you need the "Selenium environment" that should be installed on your computer.
If you are interested, you'll find the instruction on how installing it in this message: extract data from web to inside sheet without open website &refersh

After the installation you should be able to open Ebay using Chrome, access the elements and scrape some information via macro.
For example, using this macro:
Code:
Sub EbaySel()
Dim WPage As Object
Dim PColl As Object, PPUrl As String
Dim I As Long, J As Long
'
Set WPage = CreateObject("Selenium.WebDriver")
WPage.Start "chrome"
For I = 2 To Cells(Rows.Count, "A").End(xlUp).Row
    WPage.Get Cells(I, 1)
    WPage.Wait 500
    Set PColl = WPage.FindElementsByClass("ux-image-carousel-item")
    For J = 1 To PColl.Count
        PPUrl = PColl(J).FindElementByTag("img").Attribute("src")
        If Len(PPUrl) < 5 Then PPUrl = PColl(J).FindElementByTag("img").Attribute("data-src")
        Debug.Print J, PPUrl
        Cells(I, 2 + J).Clear
        Cells(I, 2 + J).Value = PPUrl
        ActiveSheet.Hyperlinks.Add anchor:=Cells(I, 2 + J), Address:=PPUrl
        DoEvents
    Next J
Next I
Set WPage = Nothing
MsgBox ("Completed")
End Sub
Copy the code into a standard module of your vba project. Then you need to create a list of items to be searched in column A, then run Sub EbaySel.
It will open Chrome, navigate to each of the urls, copy on column C and subsequents the picture url and set a hyperlink to the url

As shown in the attached picture
Thank you very much, I will try this out tomorrow. I didn't know about Selenium! I wondered what could be used instead of the outdated ie.
 
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