Excel VBA web scraping for data table

Question

I am trying to get data from Roster Resource, here\'s an example of a webpage (https://www.rosterresource.com/mlb-arizona-diamondbacks). At the very minimum, I want to get t

Answer 1

If you navigate the webpage https://www.rosterresource.com/mlb-arizona-diamondbacks and choose Inspect element from context menu on the table, you will see in browser developer tools that the whole table is located within a frame:

So actually you need to retrieve the data from that Google Spreadsheet document. That could be done with XHR and Regex, as shown in the below code:

Option Explicit

Sub Test()

    Dim sContent As String
    Dim i As Long
    Dim j As Long
    Dim k As Long
    Dim aTables()
    Dim aHeader() As String
    Dim aRows() As String

    ' Retrieve HTML content via XHR
    With CreateObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP")
        .Open "GET", "https://www.rosterresource.com/mlb-arizona-diamondbacks", False
        .Send
        sContent = .ResponseText
    End With
    ' Cut all before iframe URL
    sContent = Split(sContent, "