18. Reading from and Writing to the Web

The Internet has become pervasive and has changed our lives. From your desktop, millions of answers are available at your fingertips. In addition, publishing a report on the Web enables millions of others to instantly access your information.

This chapter discusses automated ways to pull data from the Web into spreadsheets, using web queries. You’ll find out how to use VBA to call a website repeatedly to gather information for many data points. It also shows how to save data from your spreadsheet directly to the Web.

Getting Data from the Web

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