XmlHttpRequest – Http requests in Excel VBA (Updated 2022)

Excel is a powerful and most popular tool for data analysis! HTTP requests in VBA gives additional capabilities to Excel. XmlHttpRequest object is used to make HTTP requests in VBA. HTTP requests can be used to interact with a web service, API or even websites. Let’s understand how it works.

xmlhttprequest in excel vba

Open an excel file and open VBA editor (Alt + f11) > new module and start writing code in a sub

Public sub XmlHttpTutorial

End Sub

Define XMLHttpRequest

Define http client using following code

Dim xmlhttp as object
Set xmlhttp = CreateObject("MSXML2.serverXMLHTTP")

If you need VBA’s Intellisense autocomplete then do it this way :

First, Add a reference to MSXML (Tools > references)

Select appropriate version based on your PC :
1. Microsoft XML, v 3.0.
2. Microsoft XML, v 4.0 (if you have installed MSXML 4.0 separately).
3. Microsoft XML, v 5.0 (if you have installed Office 2003 – 2007 which provides MSXML 5.0 for Microsoft Office Applications).
4. Microsoft XML, v 6.0 for latest versions of MS Office.

Then define http client

Dim xmlhttp As New MSXML2.XMLHTTP
'Dim xmlhttp As New MSXML2.XMLHTTP60 for Microsoft XML, v 6.0 

VBA Intellisense will show you the right one when you start typing.

Make requests

Requests can be made using open and send methods. Open method syntax is as follows :

xmlhttp.Open Method, URL, async(true or false)

I’m using requestBin to test requests. Create a bin there and send requests to that URL to test requests.

A simple GET request would be :

Dim xmlhttp As New MSXML2.XMLHTTP60, myurl As String
myurl = "http://requestb.in/15oxrjh1" //replace with your URL
xmlhttp.Open "GET", myurl, False
xmlhttp.Send
MsgBox(xmlhttp.responseText)

Run this code, a message box is displayed with the response of the request.

Request headers

Request headers can be set using setRequestHeader method. Examples :

xmlhttp.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "text/json"
xmlhttp.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
xmlhttp.setRequestHeader "User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 3_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/7B405"
xmlhttp.setRequestHeader "Authorization", AuthCredentials

Simple POST request to send formdata

POST requests are used to send some data, data can be sent in Send method. A simple POST request to send form data :

Public Sub httpclient()
Dim xmlhttp As New MSXML2.XMLHTTP, myurl As String
myurl = "http://requestb.in/15oxrjh1"
xmlhttp.Open "POST", myurl, False
xmlhttp.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
xmlhttp.Send "name=codingislove&[email protected]"
MsgBox (xmlhttp.responseText)
End Sub

Basic Authentication in VBA

When we need to access web services with basic authentication, A username and password have to be sent with the Authorization header. Username and password should also be base64 encoded. Example :

user = "someusername"
password = "somepassword"
xmlhttp.setRequestHeader "Authorization", "Basic " + Base64Encode(user + ":" + password)

Here’s a paste of utility function that helps to encode string to Base64

Practical use cases

Practical use cases of http requests in VBA are unlimited. Some of them are pulling data from Yahoo finance API, weather API, pulling orders from Ecommerce store admin panel, uploading products, retrieving web form data to excel etc.

Read : Parse HTML in Excel VBA – Learn by parsing hacker news home page where I retrieve a web page using HTTP GET request and parse its HTML to get data from a web page.

Read How to build a simple weather app in Excel VBA where I make a HTTP Get request to weather API

Read JSON Api in Excel VBA where I call JSON Apis using HTTP GET and POST requests.

If you have and questions or feedback, comment below.

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George
George
7 years ago

what is the syntax to open Techopedia resfull service in Excel VBA?
They provided they following info using curl

curl -H ‘Authorization: apikey foo:19765acd5546655c1a2888’
‘http://api.technopedia.com/api/v1/manufacturer/?format=json’

Ketan
Ketan
7 years ago

Hi Can you please provide information for Authorization Oauth 1.0
type.

I have

consumer_key: CONSUMER_KEY
, consumer_secret: CONSUMER_SECRET
, token: token_no
, token_secret: secret_key

in get method

Naveen
Naveen
6 years ago
Reply to  Ketan

Hi Ketan,

do you find anything related to your query? I am also looking for vba code using OAuth1.0 and downloading data.

scott
scott
7 years ago

Hi,

I can get the data from the API but I am having trouble pasting the data into Excel. My code sample is below.

When I check the responseText with msgBox, I see all the data. But when I try pasting it into Excel, it only pastes the headers for some reason.

I also tried putting the data into a variable first and then paste into Excel, but it’s the same result.

Dim iXMLHTTP As Object
Set iXMLHTTP = CreateObject(“MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP”)
Dim sURL As String

iXMLHTTP.Open "GET", sURL, False
iXMLHTTP.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "text/xml"
iXMLHTTP.send

Range(“A1”) = iXMLHTTP.responseText

Thanks

scott
scott
7 years ago
Reply to  Ranjith kumar

https://marketdata.websol.barchart.com/getHistory.csv?key=%5BAPI KEY]&symbol=MS&type=daily&startDate=20030101000000

[API KEY] being the actual key

scott
scott
7 years ago
Reply to  Ranjith kumar

It doesn’t seem to support xml.

But here is a sample of the output. It only pastes the first line.

http://pastebin.com/Nhwkgygt

Naveen Upadhyay
Naveen Upadhyay
6 years ago
Reply to  scott

hi scott, can u send me the complete code for oauth1.0 in excel?

Mustapha Muhammad Aliyu
Mustapha Muhammad Aliyu
7 years ago

hello,
this is the curl i use for my api. how do i write it in vba?
curl –data “apikey=d8a40f77-69b5-4ef7-b554-d8f86382101c&cursor=MQ==&limit=1” -v http://localhost:1234/call.php?apicall=registration.data&apiDataType=xml

thanks in advance

Mustapha Muhammad Aliyu
Mustapha Muhammad Aliyu
7 years ago
Reply to  Ranjith kumar

Thank you very much

bruno
7 years ago

Hello,
How can I send a post to a specific web page and also open and display this web page at the same time ?
Thanks

Mathieu
Mathieu
7 years ago

Hello, my request in VBA needs login but I don’t manage to write the right code, this is the request (Chrome) :

General
Request URL:https://www.crt.asso.fr/NEA/Account/…nUrl=%2FNEA%2F
Request MethodOST
Status Code:302 Found

Response Headers
Cache-Control:max-age=0, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate
Connection:Keep-Alive
Content-Length:122
Content-Type:text/html; charset=utf-8
Date:Fri, 10 Mar 2017 12:42:01 GMT
Expires:Wed, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMT
Keep-Alive:timeout=5, max=99
Location:/NEA/
Pragma:no-cache
Server:Microsoft-IIS/7.5
Set-Cookie:.ASPXAUTH=0B9A76034C6659905F9D6B4F1881D6DA51889592443; path=/
X-AspNet-Version:4.0.30319
X-AspNetMvc-Version:4.0
X-Content-Type-Options:nosniff
X-Frame-Options:sameorigin
X-Powered-By:ASP.NET
Remote Address:81.255.195.114:443

Request Headers
Accept:text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,/;q=0.8
Accept-Encoding:gzip, deflate, br
Accept-Language:fr-FR,fr;q=0.8
Cache-Control:max-age=0
Connection:keep-alive
Content-Length:205
Content-Type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Cookie:ASP.NET_SessionId=k1ixtazl1a1gu; __RequestVerificationToken_L05FQQ2=6qV_EElO1LcuuIxun2_cnZb54TZJe-pbVjG0VnLkmjdE88hNWXL-k3c4PY89uP7STiP8j7USwPN57wIzqjQggRSJINz9SqXDh7FQwwW2GLSgXAg2; __utma=191880309.452072024.1488573681.1489145502.1489148060.3; __utmb=191880309.9.10.1489148060; __utmc=191880309; __utmz=191880309.1488573681.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none); fe_typo_user=758ccd26892baf680fd9fb0560abb767
Host:www.crt.asso.fr
Origin:https://www.crt.asso.fr
Referer:https://www.crt.asso.fr/NEA/Account/…nUrl=%2fNEA%2f
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests:1
User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.87 Safari/537.36

Query String Parameters
returnUrl:/NEA/

Form Data
__RequestVerificationToken:iFUBQb5dMsakBQAgHdELh0VOb
codeAffilie:XXXXXX
key:X
password:XXXX

Mathieu
Mathieu
7 years ago
Reply to  Ranjith kumar

Public Sub httplogin()
Dim result As String
Dim XMLHTTP As New MSXML2.XMLHTTP60, myurl As String
myurl = “https://www.crt.asso.fr/NEA/Account/Login?returnUrl=%2FNEA%2F”
XMLHTTP.Open “POST”, myurl, False
XMLHTTP.setRequestHeader “Content-Type”, “application/x-www-form-urlencoded”
XMLHTTP.Send “codeAffilie=XXXXXX&key=X&password=XXXX”
MsgBox (XMLHTTP.responseText)
End Sub

Many thanks

Dave
Dave
6 years ago
Reply to  Mathieu

did you ever solve this?
I think it may be related to https, I’m having trouble posting to a login form in https too.

Lito
Lito
7 years ago

Hello – I am trying to download .zip files containing one single .csv file. Is there a simple way to do this? Below is the url with the .zip files…

Thanks!

Lito

http://mis.ercot.com/misapp/GetReports.do?reportTypeId=12301&reportTitle=Settlement%20Point%20Prices%20at%20Resource%20Nodes,%20Hubs%20and%20Load%20Zones&showHTMLView=&mimicKey

Amit
Amit
6 years ago

Hey am trying to achieve the following use case i got a authorization URL, actual URL , user name password and have to use 64 encode on the actual URL to get a valid cookie to extract the data i need. I am trying to use the winhttp class in VBA to pass the user and and password but not sure what syntax do i need to pass the 64 bit encode URL, can you please help.

Marcelo Gazzola Ribeiro
Marcelo Gazzola Ribeiro
4 years ago
Reply to  Ranjith kumar

How about Bearer auth? How do I do it please?

Dave Branson
Dave Branson
6 years ago

I have the following curl code which I am trying to convert to VBA for excel

Endpoint : http://api.datadoctorit.com/email-validate
Request Type : POST
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
‘Content-Type: application/json’,
‘Content-Length: ‘ . strlen( $data ),
‘X-Auth-Token: XXXXXXX’
) );
Here is the code that I came up with:

Dim strURL As String
Dim hReq As WinHttpRequest: Set hReq = CreateObject("WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1")
Dim strResp As String
Dim Token As String
Token = mytoken
strURL = "http://api.datadoctorit.com/email-validate"
hReq.Open "POST", strURL, False
hReq.SetRequestHeader "Content-Type", "application/json"
hReq.Send "X-Auth-Token" & ":" & token
strResp = hReq.ResponseText
MsgBox strResp

I keep getting this error:

” {“”error””:””You need to sign in or sign up before continuing.””}”

Arun James
Arun James
6 years ago

Hi Ranjith,

Is there any way to get a particular cookie during run time and pass it as a header while sending this request. I want to do that in chrome browser.

Thanks,
Arun James

ARUN JAMES
ARUN JAMES
6 years ago
Reply to  Ranjith kumar

yes Ranjith, you are right

ARUN JAMES
ARUN JAMES
6 years ago
Reply to  Ranjith kumar

Thanks for the reply. That helped , is there a way I can read those cookie dynamically during run time and pass it. Coz the cookie that I am looking is session id which will vary always.

ARUN JAMES
ARUN JAMES
6 years ago

@Ranjith Can you look on the above question when you get time ?

Vishnu O Nair
Vishnu O Nair
6 years ago
Reply to  Ranjith kumar

We have tried the following code snippet for getting the Cookies from Chrome Browser in Run Time.

Set Xobj = CreateObject(MSXML2.XMLHTTP”)
ChromePath = “”C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe”””
Returnvalue = Shell(ChromePath & https://google.com”, vbNormalFocus)
StrCookie =Xobj.getAllResponseHeaders()
End Sub

While running the same, we are getting the below error.
“Run-time error ‘-2147467259 (800004005) Unspecified Error.”
We have tried an alternative way, by using an object of Chrome/IE Browser. We are able to Create Object for IE, but for Chrome its displaying error.
Is there any way for Creating an object for Chrome browser, like the below line of code
“ Set MyIE=CreateObject(“InternetExplorer.Application”) which is creating Object for IE browser

We are just started with Macros, and It will be really helpful If you could help us on this.

Karim
6 years ago

hi Ranjit,

Thanks for writing this tutorial.
I tried using your code above for sending a POST call and got an error message for the following definition: xmlhttp As New MSXML2.xmlhttp
“Compile error: User-Defined type not defined”

Any clue what the error could be?

Some notes:
1) I did add the reference to XML 6.0
2) I’m on Excel 2013 and Windows 10 Enterprise

Thanks!

harihs
harihs
5 years ago
Reply to  Ranjith kumar

sir
i want json file to excel converter
please guide me how to do in microsoft excel

Robert
Robert
6 years ago

Hi Ranjith,

Thank you for posting this.

I am trying to access an API whose response to the http post request is an excel file (.xlsx). Do you know how I could handle this response, such as loading the response into a workbook object?

Thank you.

Aung Khaing Hein
Aung Khaing Hein
6 years ago

Dear Ranjith,

I’m trying to implement the following CURL command into Excel VBA Code :

curl -H “api_key:5e8e9773-78ce-11e6-884b-f1ceeb96” -X POST –data-urlencode csv_data@D:\work\Master.csv http://kf-xxxxx.appspot.com/api/1/TestingMaster/csv

But In the HTTP Request of VBA Code, I don’t know how to use my local csv file. Could you please help me for that? My VBA codes are as follow:

Dim oRequest As Object

Set oRequest = CreateObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP")

oRequest.Open "POST", "http://kf-xxxxx.appspot.com/api/1/TestingMaster/csv", False
oRequest.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "text/csv"
oRequest.setRequestHeader "api_key", "5e8e9773-78ce-11e6-884b-f1ceeb96"
oRequest.setRequestHeader "Content-disposition", "attachment; filename=Master.csv"

oRequest.send

Thank you very much.

Aung Khaing Hein
Aung Khaing Hein
6 years ago
Reply to  Ranjith kumar

Thank you very much Ranjith.

Rehan
Rehan
6 years ago

Hi there!

Using the example shared regarding “POST” requests in VBA – I tried changing the POST method to UPDATE but it creates duplicate entries instead of updating the date of the API.

I’ve tested the API and the UPDATE method is supported and works fine but when to do this from Excel, a duplicate record is created.

Do you have any suggestion for making UPDATE requests from Excel? I’m using VBA JSON latest version.

Thank you!

Rehan
Rehan
6 years ago
Reply to  Ranjith kumar

Ranjith,

Thank you for your reply. I’m using PUT (Sorry for not mentioning this earlier) request but that is creating duplicates. Can you please confirm two things:

Is the Convert.bas causing this issue?

Do you have any example of PUT request that I can double check my
request with?

I was under impression that the API has a bug but tested that with Postman and it worked fine.

Really appreciate your help with this! 🙂

Mike
6 years ago

Hi,

I am making an API call from Excel VBA. Sometimes the Jsoncoverter gives an error, since the string i receive from the API is incorrect. I was told i need to check the “http response header code” first to validate the response. Although i dont see a http response header code. Do you know where i can find this? Thanks!

Jose
Jose
6 years ago

Thanks very much for writing this tutorial and for taking the time to answer the questions!
I need to access a file which is in an intranet site. When I download the file through the browser I get authenticated with my windows credentials, the browsers sends a negotiate call. I’d like to access the files directly from excel with vba, but I don’t know how to create the code so that the server authenticates the user.
Could you point me to right direction? I’ve searched the entire web looking for an answer.
Most grateful.

Jose
Jose
6 years ago
Reply to  Ranjith kumar

Hi!I’ve no technical knowledge of exactly what type of intranet it is, but we have several self produced sites which requires single sign-on/ windows authentication. These sites are not available from outside the network. What I know is that there is no Google, Amazon or Sharepoint involved 🙂

J
J
6 years ago

Hello, please … how to send a second OPEN and SEND to post input data (formdata) into multiple input text fields on web page?

J
J
6 years ago
Reply to  Ranjith kumar

Thank you. The page is a JSF page. The first .post accomplishes the navigation to the second page.

I cannot make a second POST or GET without an OPEN then SEND.

I do not know what URL to use as the second URL or the format of the second GET or POST request.

'Dim xXML As Object
'Set xXML = CreateObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP")
'xXML.Open "GET",??? , True
'xXML.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
'xXML.send "name=searchForm:lastName=testlastname"
'MsgBox (xXML.responseText)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46993187/submit-form-data-with-vba-xhr?noredirect=1#comment80942136_46993187

j
j
6 years ago
Reply to  Ranjith kumar

Excellent, may I please send it outside of this chat?

I can send you the code, which is very short.

j
j
6 years ago

FYI… I REALLY like your blog content. Hoping to review your JSON entries this week, in detail.

j
j
6 years ago

Thank you for this wonderful blog. As soon as I complete and clean the data extraction code, I want to work on the JSON lecture that you present. I think I may have a way to bring traffic to your JSON lecture regarding Excel to JSON.

Tyler White
6 years ago

Hello, I am having trouble with the API requesting multiple headers.
How would I go about writing a header section for this?
I have all of the required information, I just need help with the code.
Thank you in advance.

Instructions:
All REST requests must contain the following headers:

CB-ACCESS-KEY : The api key as a string.
CB-ACCESS-SIGN : The base64-encoded signature .
CB-ACCESS-TIMESTAMP : A timestamp for your request.
CB-ACCESS-PASSPHRASE : The passphrase you specified when creating the API key.

All request bodies should have content type application/json and be valid JSON.

Tyler
Tyler
6 years ago
Reply to  Ranjith kumar

Awesome, thanks a lot Ranjith!!

Tyler
Tyler
6 years ago

Ranjith, I may have spoke too soon. I am having trouble generating the sign in my question above. I really appreciate your help on my last question, could you help me out with this as well?

https://docs.gdax.com/?javascript#signing-a-message

This link describes the process, it’s simple but when I attempt to join the different parts it throws a “you must use cb-access-sign”

j
j
6 years ago

Hello Ranjith,

Thank you for the excellent tutorial for XHR.

Would you have additional courses on XHRs that have mandatory cookie responses.

I have mapped out the navigation / CLICKS with the XHR that occurs after the CLICKS. There are four (4) navigation’s:

Cookie acceptance
Enter Search terms
Click DETAIL link from search results
Next page navigation

Of these four, I have collected:

GENERAL XHR Request URL and Request Method
REQUEST HEADERS XHR Content Type
FORM DATA

Please, would you have examples of:

Click DETAIL link from search results
Next page navigation

I have searched for examples and have not found any examples of your quality, that executes XHR POST and GET.

Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

jipiwb
jipiwb
6 years ago

Bonjour les pros,

Je bute sur un pb entre xml et mshtml dans l’instruction :
Dim IE As New InternetExplorer
Dim IEDoc As HTMLDocument
set htmlinput = IEDoc.all(“OK”)
htmlinput.Click : qui fonctionne correctement (object HTMLInputElement)

et
Dim XMLReq As New MSXML2.XMLHTTP60
Dim HTMLDoc As New MSHTML.HTMLDocument
Set htmlinput = HTMLDoc.all(“OK”)
Debug.Print htmlinput, HTMLDoc.all(“OK”)
htmlinput.Click : qui ne fonctionne pas correctement (objet vide)

merci de me dire ce qui ne va pas

jipiwb
jipiwb
6 years ago

Donc je reste sous IE.

Je cherchais à gagner du temps avec HTTP

Chirag Mehta
Chirag Mehta
6 years ago

Hi Ranjith,

Below is the code snippet about trying to add custom HTTP header before sending the request.
Code stops on .setRequestHeader “X-SPP-API-Token”, apiToken and the VBA error is “The parameter is incorrect” Any idea what is wrong with this?

Dim xmlhtp As New WinHttpRequest
Dim sURL As String
Dim apiToken As String

    With xmlhtp
        .SetClientCertificate "CURRENT_USER\MY\xxxxxxxxxx"
        .Open "post", sURL, False
        .setRequestHeader "Host", "api.spp.org"
        .setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "text/xml; charset=utf-8"
        .setRequestHeader "X-SPP-API-Token", 
        .send sXML
    end with

Thanks again for your help
Chirag

Chirag Mehta
Chirag Mehta
6 years ago
Reply to  Ranjith kumar

Thanks for prompt reply Ranjith.
The apiToken is a string of 147 characters and it includes special characters like “-“, “:”, “=”, “/”. I tried passing a dummy string of <50 characters along with special characters and it didn’t return an error on setRequestHeader “X-SPP-API-Token”

So, I guess the problem may be with length of string/header? Do you have any idea about max length of header that can be passed using WinHttpRequest? And if it is less than 147, do you happen to know an alternative solution to this problem?

Thanks again Ranjith, this is really helpful.

Chirag

Bas
Bas
6 years ago

Hi, i uses this function to.
Can i disable the responseText.
I’ am not interested in the response, because i think it takes a lot of time to wait for the reponse.

Rich Wahler
Rich Wahler
6 years ago

Hello Ranjith,
Just wanted to say thanks for the example. I had been trying to move a “WEBSERVICE(url)” in Excel into a VBA call and could not figure it out. Your example helped tremendously. And it turned out to be much simpler than other ways I saw on the web.
Regards,
Rich

Here is the routing for getting a stock quote in case it can help anyone: https://bin.codingislove.com/ayaqosovot.vbs

Gregor
Gregor
6 years ago

Hi,

Can I use this procedure also to make a “delete” request?

It’s not working for me.

Thanks

Alejandro
Alejandro
6 years ago

Hello CondingIsLove !

I am struggling to retrieve the text shown below, from the web https://www.six-swiss-exchange.com/bonds/ (you can find by going to the html editor, and searching HK) .

It looks like this content in the HTML code is a dynamically loaded json… but using your method there is little I can retrieve. Maybe you have some brilliant idea?

Bests

Alejandro
Alejandro
6 years ago

Just found it ! 😛

Alejandro
Alejandro
6 years ago

I think I just found a solution! 😛

Alejandro
Alejandro
6 years ago

Free Catalan Political PRISONERS.
Rajoy = Erdogan

Mateus
Mateus
6 years ago

Hi, how can I write from excel to google sheets?

Sreejith kizhakkepurakkal
Sreejith kizhakkepurakkal
6 years ago

Hi Ranjith,
Thank you very much for the awesome blog.
I have below query.
The web-service i am going to access is using https and TLS 1.2 protocol.
We were sending request to the web service using “WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1” but since it is upgraded to https and TLS 1.2 protocol it is not working.
Will MSXML2.serverXMLHTTP supports https and TLS 1.2 ?
Also is it possible to sent the certificate as header with MSXML2.serverXMLHTTP object?

Thanks,
Sreejith

Jon
Jon
6 years ago

Please, any idea why this is not working below:

‘Microsoft Internet Controls Library
‘Microsoft HTML Object Library
‘Microsoft XML 6.0
Dim xmlhttp As Object, xmlhtml As New HTMLDocument
Set xmlhttp = CreateObject(“MSXML2.XMLHTTP”)
‘Dim xmlhttp As New MSXML2.xmlhttp
xmlhttp.Open “GET”, “https://www.google.com/search?q=” & “San+Francisco”, False ‘ Cells(xx, “B”).Value, False
xmlhttp.setRequestHeader “Content-Type”, “application/x-www-form-urlencoded”
http.send
Application.Wait Now + TimeValue(“0:00:03”) ‘SLOW DOWN
xmlhtml.body.innerHTML = xmlhttp.responseText
Debug.Print xmlhttp.responseText
Stop

Miguel Ângelo Rodrigues
Miguel Ângelo Rodrigues
4 years ago
Reply to  Jon

Sub teste1()

‘Microsoft Internet Controls Library
‘Microsoft HTML Object Library
‘Microsoft XML 6.0
Dim xmlhttp As Object, xmlhtml As New HTMLDocument
Set xmlhttp = CreateObject(“MSXML2.XMLHTTP”)
‘Dim xmlhttp As New MSXML2.xmlhttp
xmlhttp.Open “GET”, “https://www.google.com/search?q=” & “San+Francisco”, False ‘ Cells(xx, “B”).Value, False
xmlhttp.setRequestHeader “Content – Type”, “application / x – www – form – urlencoded”
xmlhttp.send
Application.Wait Now + TimeValue(“0:00:03”) ‘SLOW DOWN
xmlhtml.body.innerHTML = xmlhttp.responseText
Debug.Print xmlhttp.responseText
Stop

End Sub

Jamie Morrow
Jamie Morrow
5 years ago

I am trying to send an Outlook msg file using Post, but can’t get the file to Post. I can only get the string of the filepath and name. Can you help with that?
Thanks,
Jamie

Vinit
Vinit
5 years ago

Hi, It seems one of my existing excel vba marco stopped working when I upgraded from WINDOWS7 to WINDOWS10. Can someone help to locate the issue and provide guidance to fix it.
I did tried by adding Microsoft XML 3.0 or 6.0 reference but in both attempt I still get a blank xmlhttp.responseText.

PS: I am using similar code what was shared here https://bin.codingislove.com/ayaqosovot.vbs
The only diff is that I am using MSXML2.xmlhttp instead of MSXML2.xmlhttp60

Vinit
Vinit
5 years ago

This is my code which works on WIN7 and EXCEL 2010, however it does not work with WIN10 and EXCEL2013:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EtLkZgH6-WRPHtEPzwiHhxrtjEK9OijPOtPVokG70Mo/edit?usp=sharing

Lisa
Lisa
5 years ago

Hi Ranjith,
I am learning VBA for xsl and automating a project.I am able to provide input data to an API which currently works .But i need to provide input data from from a xsl file ,lets say data.xsl which has input data in column 1 to 30 i,e C2 to C30 in sheet 1 . I tried few things but don’t seem to get the right syntax.Can you please help with that?
I want parameter ‘st’ to read data from a xsl file .
Here is how i am providing data .

Dim http As Object
Dim st As String

Set http = CreateObject(“MSXML2.XMLHTTP”)

st = “Site=SBA_Modeler_V30&Data={‘input_BirthDate’:’1991-12-08′,’input_HireDate’:’2012-01-01′,’input_Gender’:’M’,’input_AnnualPlanComp’:33500.22,’input_EmployeeClass’:’Special Risk’,’input_AnnualPayGrowth’:1,’input_MarketPerformance’:’Average’,’input_PVD’:34,’input_NRA’:56,’input_MBAA’:56,’input_Custom_BCD’:45,’input_Custom_TermAge’:27,’input_RemainingElections’:1,’input_Pre2011ServiceYears’:0,’input_ProjectedServiceYears’:1.75,’input_ProjectedBenefitAmount’:0,’input_DROP_LumpSum’:2285.95,’input_ProjBuyBackABO’:0,’input_DateABO’:2018-01-31,’input_ProjectedABO’:2285.95,’input_ProjectedAAL’:0,’input_DateAAL’:1900-01-01,’input_InvestmentBalanceTBA’:0,’input_CurrentABO’:1331.08}”

http.Open “POST”, “https://beqlb02.poolt.hewitt.com/dsi0042/calculator”, False
http.setRequestHeader “Content-type”, “application/x-www-form-urlencoded”
http.send (st)

jeff tan
jeff tan
5 years ago

Hi Ranjith,
i wrote my code – https://bin.codingislove.com/ubijavilux
can you please help me?

faizan
faizan
5 years ago

Actually I am working on a VBA project and got stuck in it with no help from anyone looks like the problem can not be resolved. But I have very high hopes from you .

I want to scrap some stock data from a website called “https://dps.psx.com.pk/” I just need to input the quote symbol “EFOODS” on the top right corner box and it gives the details.That details I want to to scrap in excel using VBA as there are a lot of symbols and the task can be automated by scraping data to excel.

Faizan Nauman
Faizan Nauman
5 years ago

Actually I am working on a VBA project and got stuck in it with no help from anyone looks like the problem can not be resolved. But I have very high hopes from you .

I want to scrap some stock data from a website called “https://dps.psx.com.pk/&#8221; I just need to input the quote symbol “EFOODS” on the top right corner box and it gives the details.That details I want to to scrap in excel using VBA as there are a lot of symbols and the task can be automated by scraping data to excel.

Mike
Mike
5 years ago

Thanks so much for this. Awesome website and tutorial.
Could you please help?

I have an issue, I need to have 2 authorization keys like in the below CURL format;
curl -v -X GET “https://api.****.com/api/track?tracking_number={string}”
-H “******-Api-Key: ”
-H “Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key: {subscription key}”

I am getting an Error StatusCode:403 message: Forbidden

I am using the below code (along with the base64encode function) and have scrubbed the passwords of course and tracking ID. I feel it is something to do with the 2 authorisation keys being on different lines.

https://bin.codingislove.com/unulobapoh.vbs

Ravi Sharma
Ravi Sharma
5 years ago

This is really awesome!! Thank you so much for sharing .

I have a situation where users want to update data into webapp directly from excel. i am working on design where I need to
a. ping the jave web server
b. call a remote java method
c. send the excel data to the server via java method.

I managed to do the ‘part a’ but struggling with rest.

Could you please help.

Thanks,
Ravi

ashleedawg
5 years ago

…If you need VBA’s Intellisense autocomplete then do it this way …

Excellent article except that you make it sound like Intellisense is the only benefit to using Early Binding (adding “Microsoft XML” through Tools > References, as opposed to Late Binding which, in the example uses CreateObject(“MSXML2.serverXMLHTTP”)) .

There are many other benefits to using Early Binding including a substantial difference in performance/speed, and improved security, which is why “Microsoft recommends early binding in almost all cases.”

See section “Which form of binding should I use?” in the official documentation here: https://support.microsoft.com/help/245115/using-early-binding-and-late-binding-in-automation

The benefits of Early Binding far outweigh the “trouble” (or confusion) of having to check a checkbox in the ‘References’ dialog.

STEFANO
STEFANO
5 years ago

Hi! Ranjit
Everything here is awesome!! Thank you .
By the way…can you help…
how could be possible to use REST API to get a file an folder list on sharepoint?
and have back an array to be then used in excel? I it right to prefer this strategy instead of drive mapping (and DOS commands) and FIleSystemObjects?
tx for you reply
stefano

LASIE
5 years ago

Hi Ranjith Kumar

I’m the man in the world who discovered a high performance for successful trading using Bitfinex Exchange, all analyzed, but … I could not open / update / close ORDERS. See the documentation here: https://docs.bitfinex.com/v2/reference#ws-input-order-new

I’d rather use VBA in Microsoft Access, so the open data point is already ok, but the endpoints are not authenticated yet.

Can you help me?
Later I will donate part of my success to you!

I see you!
Lasie

Leonardo Martins
Leonardo Martins
5 years ago

I need to take data from an API on the internet but your code don’t worked for me. The error that is returned is number 13 “incompatible type”. Can you help me? The API url follows: https://bling.com.br/Api/v2/notasfiscais/json/&apikey=5c8a14eecc14fd3ffde5014b6ac5b12f753ea96159c1b13e247cfb0176f26bf12c7057fe

I am really newbie in VBA, started to study right now.

helio
helio
5 years ago

Hello Ranjith, I would like attribute to a variable or array, a xml tag only, because I need attribute it to a text box specific. Is this possible?

file xml:

1
sucesso – cep completo
PE
Csrpina
Papicu
Rua
Padre Augusto