Racing Post: Web Scraping

white_lightning

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Hi Guys

Seems a few other people are interested in this subject so I would like to keep it going to try and bounce a few ideas around.

@Norie gave me alot of help to get me started on another thread and his code helped me retrieve some data from the main page of the racing post.

Was wondering if anyone could elaberate on using the IE object data model and give some examples.

Also whats the diff between innertext and outertext?

Im now looking to get more data, i.e horse form, age, weight etc

Any help appreciated.
 
That will be great Norie. It looks really good above.

I will try using either Instr() or RegEx to isolate the necesary info then Seperate the data into another column.

Thanks again.
 
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Excel Facts

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Select a range of cells. The total appears in bottom right of Excel screen. Right-click total to add Max, Min, Count, Average.
Try Split, which will separate text out into an array based on a delimited.

Or maybe even text to columns.
 
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Hi Norie

Could you post that updated code that includes the deliminators, thanks

I will be going on holiday tommorrow so you wont hear from me for 1 week.

I am going to print all the code off and have a good look over it to make sure i understand everything. When I come back i will attempt to split the various info into different cells etc
 
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Hi Guys

Seems a few other people are interested in this subject so I would like to keep it going to try and bounce a few ideas around.

@Norie gave me alot of help to get me started on another thread and his code helped me retrieve some data from the main page of the racing post.

Was wondering if anyone could elaberate on using the IE object data model and give some examples.

Also whats the diff between innertext and outertext?

Im now looking to get more data, i.e horse form, age, weight etc

Any help appreciated.
Hi,
Very interested in this topic, could you direct me to the thread Norrie started you off on I'm sure it will help me too.
Thanks in advance.
 
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