I am trying to download an excel sheet from a website. I have thus far achieved until clicking the download button automatically (web scraping). Now ie9 is popping a save as
'This is a working code for vba in excel 2007 to open a file
'But you need to add the "UIAutomationCore.dll" to be copied
'from "C:\Windows\System32\UIAutomationCore.dll" into the
'path "C:\Users\admin\Documents"
'The path where to copy may be different and you can find it when you check on
'the box for UIAutomationClient - the location is given under it.
'Tools-references
Option Explicit
Dim ie As InternetExplorer
Dim h As LONG_PTR
Private Declare Function FindWindowEx Lib "user32" Alias "FindWindowExA" (ByVal hWnd1 As LONG_PTR, ByVal hWnd2 As LONG_PTR, ByVal lpsz1 As String, ByVal lpsz2 As String) As LONG_PTR
Sub click_open()
Dim o As IUIAutomation
Dim e As IUIAutomationElement
Dim sh
Dim eachIE
Do
Set sh = New Shell32.Shell
For Each eachIE In sh.Windows
' Check if this is the desired URL
' Here you can use your condition except .html
' If you want to use your URL , then put the URL below in the code for condition check.
' This code will reassign your IE object with the same reference for navigation and your issue will resolve.
If InStr(1, eachIE.LocationURL, "") Then
Set ie = eachIE
Exit Do
End If
Next eachIE
Loop
Set o = New CUIAutomation
h = ie.Hwnd
h = FindWindowEx(h, 0, "Frame Notification Bar", vbNullString)
If h = 0 Then Exit Sub
Set e = o.ElementFromHandle(ByVal h)
Dim iCnd As IUIAutomationCondition
Set iCnd = o.CreatePropertyCondition(UIA_NamePropertyId, "Open")
Dim Button As IUIAutomationElement
Set Button = e.FindFirst(TreeScope_Subtree, iCnd)
Dim InvokePattern As IUIAutomationInvokePattern
Set InvokePattern = Button.GetCurrentPattern(UIA_InvokePatternId)
InvokePattern.Invoke
End Sub