Web Scrapping - Get Element By Attribute Name ?

[Dzirt07]

Hello, remembers of the forum

I'm having troubles with webpage scrapping by using VBA

I know I can select element of page by using
- getElementByID
- getElementsByClassName
- getElementsByTagName

However, I have no idea how to get data by Attribute
For example
https://www.auction.com/details/2425-s-warnock-st-philadelphia-pa-19148-2573625-o_1184l

Code:

"div class="highlight-type_styles_20u0" data-elm-id="prop-type" data-reactid="170""

I can't use class because class="highlight-type_styles_20u0" is not unique

But

data-elm-id="prop-type"

is truly unique

If it was just "id" instead of "dat-elm-id" that wouldn't be a problem

Is there any way to address to HTML element by the specific name of the attribute?

Thank you for your help

 

[Domenic]

First, use getElementsByClassName to get elements that have "field-data_styles_r_Zf" as its class name, then for each element use getAttribute to check whether "field_property_type" is its attribute. If so, use innerText to get its value. So, for example, assuming that you've assigned the object variable HTMLDoc the HTML document, try...

    Dim HTMLDoc As Object
    Dim HTMLElement As Object

    'etc
    '
    '
    
    For Each HTMLElement In HTMLDoc.getElementsByClassName("field-data_styles_r_Zf")
        If HTMLElement.getAttribute("data-elm-id") = "field_property_type" Then
            Debug.Print HTMLElement.innerText
            Exit For
        End If
    Next HTMLElement

Hope this helps!

 

[Dzirt07]

First, use getElementsByClassName to get elements that have "field-data_styles_r_Zf" as its class name, then for each element use getAttribute to check whether "field_property_type" is its attribute. If so, use innerText to get its value. So, for example, assuming that you've assigned the object variable HTMLDoc the HTML document, try...

    Dim HTMLDoc As Object
    Dim HTMLElement As Object

    'etc
    '
    '
    
    For Each HTMLElement In HTMLDoc.getElementsByClassName("field-data_styles_r_Zf")
        If HTMLElement.getAttribute("data-elm-id") = "field_property_type" Then
            Debug.Print HTMLElement.innerText
            Exit For
        End If
    Next HTMLElement

Hope this helps!

Thank you so much! This is great solution

 

[Domenic]

You're very welcome. Glad I could help.

Cheers!