Get data from listings on a website to excel VBA

Question

I am trying to find a way to get the data from yelp.com

I have a spreadsheet on which there are several keywords and locations. I am looking to extract data from yel

Answer 1

If you right click in IE, and do View Source, it is apparent that the data served on the site is not part of the document's .Body.innerText property. I notice this is often the case with dynamically served data, and that approach is really too simple for most web-scraping.

I open it in Google Chrome and inspect the elements to get an idea of what I'm really looking for, and how to find it using a DOM/HTML parser; you will need to add a reference to Microsoft HTML Object Library.

I think you can get it to return a collection of the <DIV> tags, and then check those for the classname with an If statment inside the loop.

I made some revisions to my original answer, this should print each record in a new cell:

Option Explicit
Private Sub Sleep Lib "kernel32" (ByVal dwMilliseconds As Long)
Sub find()
'Uses late binding, or add reference to Microsoft HTML Object Library 
'  and change variable Types to use intellisense
Dim ie As Object 'InternetExplorer.Application
Dim html As Object 'HTMLDocument
Dim Listings As Object 'IHTMLElementCollection
Dim l As Object 'IHTMLElement
Dim r As Long
    Set ie = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
    With ie
        .Visible = False
        .Navigate "http://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=boutique&find_loc=New+York%2C+NY&ns=1&ls=3387133dfc25cc99#start=10"
        ' Don't show window
        'Wait until IE is done loading page
        Do While .readyState <> 4
            Application.StatusBar = "Downloading information, Please wait..."
            DoEvents
            Sleep 200
        Loop
        Set html = .Document
    End With
    Set Listings = html.getElementsByTagName("LI") ' ## returns the list
    For Each l In Listings
        '## make sure this list item looks like the listings Div Class:
        '   then, build the string to put in your cell
        If InStr(1, l.innerHTML, "media-block clearfix media-block-large main-attributes") > 0 Then
            Range("A1").Offset(r, 0).Value = l.innerText
            r = r + 1
        End If
    Next

Set html = Nothing
Set ie = Nothing
End Sub