Select Item in a dropdown from website via Excel Macro - excel

Question

I would like to select the options "Addition, Bulk, Reduction" using excel VBA
This what I have so far, but nothing is being selected.
Dim ie As InternetExplorer
Set ie = New InternetExplorer
ie.Visible = True
ie.navigate "my URL"
Do While ie.readyState <> READYSTATE_COMPLETE
DoEvents
Loop
'time_adjust_group_ident = Reduction
Dim doc As HTMLDocument
Set doc = ie.document
doc.getElementById("time_adjust_group_ident").Value = "Reduction"
End Sub

Answer 1

You don't need Internet Explorer object for this. Please take a look in the code below where I use MSXML2.XMLHTTP to make a HTTP request and get the HTML response as a string, and then parse it using the HTMLFile object.
I'm using the CreateObject method instead of adding the references via Tools > References, so you can run this code anywhere without having to add references manually every time you open this in a different machine.
In this example, I'm retrieving the children elements of the language-selector dropdown in a given website, and looping through it using a For Each to write each child element's content in a spreadsheet row.
Sub LoadHtml()
Dim strUrl As String
strUrl = "https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/select"
Dim httpRequest As Object
Set httpRequest = CreateObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP")
With httpRequest
.Open "GET", strUrl, False
.send
End With
Dim html As Object
Set html = CreateObject("HTMLFile")
html.body.innerHTML = httpRequest.ResponseText
Dim child As Object
Dim row As Integer
row = 1
For Each child In html.getElementById("language-selector").Children
Range("A" & row) = child.innerText
row = row + 1
Next
End Sub