I am wanting to be able to toggle between using Microsoft internet controls and MSXMLHTTP on the fly and use as much of the same code as possible

mctabish

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I have the need to scrape some sites. Most of the time, I can use MSXMLHTTP, but there are times I neet to access the loaded page to get some of the data.
There are 2 ways that I would like to control this. The first is before launching the scrape via userform, if I know that I will need to load the page.
The other case is if I get an error when trying to reach a piece of info
It is my understanding that one I get the document in to the dov variabel that the processing of the data should be the same.

So, here is what I see as some psuado code.
VBA Code:
public Need_IeError as boolean
public need_ieForm as boolean
both Need_Ie would be set to false 
'form would have a check box where if a certain piece of info is requested, it would mark Need_Ie as true
'then the constol modual with a loop to control the scrape would launch creating the url in a for next loop, then call the 'scrape module
sub Control
'luanch form get options the start loop
for i = 1 to 
url = whatever from ws
if scrape(url) then
progress update to form
else 
failed! Need to set Need_Ie to TRUE the return the scrape
Need_IeError= true
scrape(url)
'turn off the error
Need_IeError= false
Next 
end sub

Function Srape(url) as boolean

'if either Need_ie are true lauch IE mode,
'here I am inserting the actaul code I am trying. The MSXMLHTTP portion already works with all fields, so that I what I need the IE to mimic.

    If ieMode Then
        Dim oHttp As New InternetExplorer
        oHttp.Visible = True
        oHttp.navigate url
        Do
            DoEvents
        Loop Until oHttp.readyState = READYSTATE_COMPLETE
        'Set oHttp = oHttp.document
        HTMLdoc.body.innerHTML = oHttp.document

    Else
        On Error Resume Next
        Set oHttp = New MSXML2.XMLHTTP60
        If Err.Number <> 0 Then
            Set oHttp = CreateObject("MSXML.XMLHTTPRequest")
            MsgBox "Error 0 has occured while creating a MSXML.XMLHTTPRequest object"
        End If
        On Error GoTo 0
        If oHttp Is Nothing Then
            MsgBox "For some reason I wasn't able to make a MSXML2.XMLHTTP object"
            Exit Sub
        End If

        'Open the URL in browser object
        oHttp.Open "GET", url, False
        oHttp.send
           HTMLdoc.body.innerHTML = oHttp.responseText
    End If


'Then from here I process the page calling functions  that return strings like this:
s_Get_Instructions = Get_Instructions(HTMLdoc.body)
or 
sGet_VolPrice = Get_VolPrice(HTMLdoc)
'I would need to have the function return a string "ERROR" and the if this fails, set Need_IeError to TRUE, then exit the 'SCRAPE with a FALSE with a if block like this:
if sGet_VolPrice = "ERROR" then
Need_IeError = TRUE
Scrape = FALSE 
Exit function
end if

'process all of the data as needed....

end function

The issues I am running in to is the oHttp is trying to be declared 2 tiimes, and the IE when I try to get element like this fails:
s_header = HTMLdoc.getElementsByTagName("h1")(0).innerText
But this works in the MSXMLHTTP



Any help/thoughts?
Thanks
Bruce
 

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