How do I issue an HTTP GET from Excel VBA for Mac

Question

I need to issue an HTTP Get with a query string to a web service from Excel for Mac 2011. I\'ve seen the answers for using QueryTables (How can I send an HTTP POST request

Answer 1

Another option (update accordingly if your curl is not located in /opt/local/bin/curl):

VBA:

Public Function getUrlContents(url) As String
    Dim command As String
    command = "do shell script ""/path_to/getUrl.sh " + url + """"
    getUrlContents = VBA.MacScript(command)
End Function

/path_to/getUrl.sh:

#!/bin/sh

if [ -z "$1" ]
  then
    echo "missing url argument"
else
    /opt/local/bin/curl "$1"
fi

Note that you will have to ensure that getUrl.sh is executable:

chmod u+x getUrl.sh