CHAPTER 18Reading from and writing to the web

In this chapter, you will:

  • Get data from the web

  • Use Application.OnTime to periodically analyze data

  • Publish data to a web page

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 new features from the former Power Query add-in. You’ll find out how to use VBA to call a website repeatedly to gather information for many data points. This chapter also shows how to save data from a spreadsheet directly to the web.

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