如何使用VBA访问WebPage（IHTMLDocument？）

Question

Using the following code, I can open up an Internet Explorer window and navigate to the website. I would like to go further by being able to have a code click through one of the links (such as "Boxing/UFC").

Sub Run()   
Set IE = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
With IE
    .Visible = True
    .Navigate2 "http://www.bet365.com"
    Do Until .ReadyState = 4: DoEvents: Loop
    .Quit
End With

Because that link leads to a Javascript onclick event ( onclick="gS(1020,9);return false;" ) can you suggest code I could use that would enable VBA to click through that link without the user's interference once the VBA macro is run?

Answer 1

In Internet Explorer, you can simply click a link via the DOM API.

Retrieve the DOM node (the A ) you are interested in, and call click() on it. This will also fire all associated event handlers.

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EDIT: In your case, with VBA, do something like this (untested, I don't have VBA here)

Dim sideNav As IHTMLElement 
Dim navLinks As IHTMLElementCollection
Dim currLink As IHTMLElement

Set sideNav = IE.document.getElementByID("sln")
Set navLinks = sideNav.all.tags("A")

For Each currLink In navLinks
  If Trim(currLink.innerText) = "Boxing/UFC" Then
    currLink.Click
  End If
Next currLink

Answer 2

You would need to query the html document, and retrieve the collection. Once you retrieve the collection you would need to iterate through the elements and click it.

I am pasting a snippet of the code here ( click here for the entire code ). This is in c++, but i am assuming it must be the same for VB too.

            IHTMLElementCollection *spCollectEmbed;
            spDocument->get_links(&spCollectEmbed);
            if(spCollectEmbed)
            {
            // get all the links
            long lLen;
            spCollectEmbed->get_length(&lLen);
            for (long i = 0; i < lLen; i++)
            {
                IDispatch *ppvdispOption;
                IHTMLElement *interfaceHTMLElement;
                VARIANT index;
                index.vt = VT_I4;
                index.lVal = i;

        // get the item from the document
                HRESULT hResult = spCollectEmbed->item(index, index, &ppvdispOption);
                if(SUCCEEDED(hResult))
                {
        // query for the element
        hResult = ppvdispOption->QueryInterface( IID_IHTMLElement,
        (void **) &interfaceHTMLElement);
        if(SUCCEEDED(hResult))
        {
        BSTR innerhtml;
        interfaceHTMLElement->get_innerHTML(&innerhtml);
        // click the links
        interfaceHTMLElement->click();
        Sleep(2000);
        }