HTTPS NSE data request in VBA how to get all cookie values - excel

I'm trying to access https://www.nseindia.com/ to get the cookies in response headers.
But using MSXML2.XMLHTTP returns the cookie value as empty string.
From, VBA Microsoft.XMLHTTP setRequestHeader not sending cookie - I tried using WinHTTP, which did not connect at all and kept timing out. Apparently that can only be used on HTTP requests. How can the same be done for a HTTPS request?
MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP also does not seem to support HTTPS requests.
Please find the code snippets I used for the 2 methods below:
MSXML2.XMLHTTP
Sub Get_Web_Data()
Dim request As Object
Dim response As String
Dim website As String
' Website to go to.
website = "https://www.nseindia.com/"
' Create the object that will make the webpage request.
Set request = CreateObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP")
' Where to go and how to go there.
request.Open "GET", website, False
' Set headers.
request.setRequestHeader "If-Modified-Since", "Sat, 1 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT"
request.setRequestHeader "user-agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/89.0.4389.82 Safari/537.36"
request.setRequestHeader "accept-Encoding", "gzip , deflate"
request.setRequestHeader "accept-language", "en-US,en;q=0.9"
request.setRequestHeader "Accept", "text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5"
request.setRequestHeader "Accept-Charset", "ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7"
' Send the request for the webpage.
request.send
responseHeaders = request.getAllResponseHeaders
MsgBox responseHeaders
End Sub
winHTTP
Sub Get_Web_Data_Cookie()
Dim website As String
Dim cookieString As String
Dim XMLHTTP As WinHttp.WinHttpRequest
' Website to go to.
website = "https://www.nseindia.com/"
'Initialize XMLHttp Object
Set XMLHTTP = CreateObject("WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1") ' needs Microsoft WinHTTP Services 5.1 reference
' XMLHTTP.Option(WinHttpRequestOption_EnableRedirects) = False ' WinHttpRequestOption_EnableRedirects=6
XMLHTTP.Open "GET", website, False
' Set headers.
XMLHTTP.setRequestHeader "user-agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/89.0.4389.82 Safari/537.36"
XMLHTTP.setRequestHeader "accept-encoding", "gzip , deflate"
XMLHTTP.setRequestHeader "accept-language", "en-US,en;q=0.9"
' Send the request for the webpage.
XMLHTTP.send
responseHeaders = XMLHTTP.getAllResponseHeaders
MsgBox responseHeaders
End Sub

Okay, I have finally solved it using the same steps as mentioned in - How to get cookie information using excel vba
This was NOT a Certificate issue at all.
Here is my code.
Public Function NSEDataCall(website, setCookies) As String
Dim XMLHTTP As WinHttp.WinHttpRequest
'Initialize XMLHttp Object
'Use the best/proper XMLHttp object available on your system
Set XMLHTTP = CreateObject("WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1") ' needs Microsoft WinHTTP Services 5.1 reference
' XMLHTTP.Option(WinHttpRequestOption_EnableRedirects) = False ' WinHttpRequestOption_EnableRedirects=6
XMLHTTP.Open "GET", website, False
' Set headers.
XMLHTTP.setRequestHeader "REFERER", website
XMLHTTP.setRequestHeader "User-Agent", "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)"
XMLHTTP.setRequestHeader "Accept", "text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5"
XMLHTTP.setRequestHeader "Accept-Language", "en-us,en;q=0.5"
XMLHTTP.setRequestHeader "Accept-Charset", "ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7"
' Set cookie value - used for second call
If Len(setCookies) > 0 Then
XMLHTTP.setRequestHeader "cookie", setCookies
Else
End If
XMLHTTP.send
If Len(setCookies) > 0 Then
' Get response headers
response = XMLHTTP.getAllResponseHeaders
' Debug.Print response
' Split by new line
responseArray = Split(response, vbCrLf)
' Debug.Print responseArray(7)
' Helps to identify dataType - output comes as code numbers
' MsgBox (VarType(Trim(Split(Split(responseArray(5), ";")(0), ":")(1)) & "; " & Trim(Split(Split(responseArray(6), ";")(0), ":")(1))
' Return the sv_bm cookie in response array from indices 7 (indices start from 0)
NSEDataCall = setCookies & "; " & Trim(Split(Split(responseArray(7), ";")(0), ":")(1))
Else
' Get response headers
response = XMLHTTP.getAllResponseHeaders
' Debug.Print response
' Split by new line
responseArray = Split(response, vbCrLf)
' Helps to identify dataType - output comes as code numbers
' MsgBox (VarType(Trim(Split(Split(responseArray(5), ";")(0), ":")(1)) & "; " & Trim(Split(Split(responseArray(6), ";")(0), ":")(1))
' Return the cookies in response array from indices 5 to 9
NSEDataCall = Trim(Split(Split(responseArray(5), ";")(0), ":")(1)) & "; " & Trim(Split(Split(responseArray(6), ";")(0), ":")(1)) & "; " & Trim(Split(Split(responseArray(7), ";")(0), ":")(1)) & "; " & Trim(Split(Split(responseArray(8), ";")(0), ":")(1)) & "; " & Trim(Split(Split(responseArray(9), ";")(0), ":")(1))
'Debug.Print (responseArray(5) + responseArray(6))
End If
End Function
Sub GetNSECookies()
Dim website As String
Dim cookieValues As String
Dim website2 As String
Dim cookieValuesFinal As String
' First call
website = "https://www.nseindia.com/market-data/securities-lending-and-borrowing"
cookieValues = NSEDataCall(website, cookieValues)
' Debug.Print (cookieValues)
' Second call for sv_bm cookie
website = "https://www.nseindia.com/market-data/securities-lending-and-borrowing"
cookieValues = NSEDataCall(website, cookieValues)
Debug.Print (cookieValues)
End Sub
the output for this code snippet is as below.
nsit=p8XRMHoQSM5uEQUM7XIJdT8B; nseappid=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpc3MiOiJhcGkubnNlIiwiYXVkIjoiYXBpLm5zZSIsImlhdCI6MTYxNjA0MDYwNCwiZXhwIjoxNjE2MDQ0MjA0fQ.BLTcAzB76DYfZI3rXUl2PkrpgUZp9w8r1UF-yXGo4Os; AKA_A2=A; ak_bmsc=520CE4F35658A3B15048CCCE60A4E7547D38DE9EEC3000009CD25260A2FB3E43~pl9bruXUs5nNKxK5S/bJRyN580uFS9ZtV8nwBP8Qm3XWDms7ASCi3ptfGjv0tdgor2Su0pgG13S0ZfheirbKwG8ckZjIrwFJekieseYkMEljA7MivwOo+izySca+cktj38v8dtutTScCfjVJGZOpaCwWBzr9v3JYpKVjdQCqnb4KB7v51O1ZmuqCtoK4b2sA0qQUytHgGGgXf8ZtFFv0VT7AjbZNKcjEdm4LTLidgmXX0=; bm_mi=C5AE845425DB55CAB9626B7A4DD0F7FD~D8U6FxMuj0HFHRdsgmxmpC2LOBFGEpHQgTAoFX8vOTeoNfTZ/KMz4NOdu52Ao8qbord9vfGA+KQ2/HN+8ILK5BSLxT//yRFIsPKmHCiA7bxUU14SqZO3gQo4BVW92dqJodsoqYpEXwXEjOtbDCZ1E2w9aERcEpCAQeLuQvzlAjiJwmIia0iAAuTc2eewlyBtb0oSaRCMTZXDcuvziSCCfzdo8N8lTtWaMICsVClYXQqaIeqGWFjh1xyKo+jj1cJxYULE3vXWBSYaRHnJLZX/+oyYWrkqvrwPn+/PDpN1iPY=; bm_sv=E2881456097AB72A45E379FB86952E6F~iCyF/Esh3Bj9L205JScGaCUgr9qyeITu91BXox9pKZCvOvYx6Rt5m2VTyNCSMmYIBqZkRD0R3n11Htgb0Ill5TX9TXgVk+kL++6CUS9o93j
LGwFnXVBbQ60xz0+iuscdi7T93Dlv7JL9Lw32gobE/R6NmwzDjaxT2WFmKf7nV/M=

Adapting the solution found here:
This works for me with url of https://www.stackoverflow.com:
Sub test()
Dim url As String
url = "https://www.stackoverflow.com"
Dim winHttpReq As Object
Set winHttpReq = CreateObject("WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1")
'Ignoriere SSL-Errors
winHttpReq.Option(4) = &H3300
winHttpReq.Open "GET", url, False
winHttpReq.Send ("")
Debug.Print winHttpReq.getAllResponseHeaders
End Sub
Outputs:
Cache-Control: private
Connection: keep-alive
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 04:32:59 GMT
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Via: 1.1 varnish
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Server: Microsoft-IIS/10.0
Vary: Fastly-SSL
strict-transport-security: max-age=15552000
x-route-name: Home/Index
x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN
x-flags: AA
x-aspnet-duration-ms: 3
x-request-guid: 4e8b7ffc-6609-4009-b59e-f1d72d598284
x-is-crawler: 0
x-providence-cookie: f34f05db-5db7-2f34-bb41-7c9c32fada8c
feature-policy: microphone 'none'; speaker 'none'
content-security-policy: upgrade-insecure-requests; frame-ancestors 'self' https://stackexchange.com
x-page-view: 1
X-Served-By: cache-syd10151-SYD
X-Cache: MISS
X-Cache-Hits: 0
X-Timer: S1615955579.318915,VS0,VE282
X-DNS-Prefetch-Control: off
But for https://www.nseindia.com it just times out. Perhaps you can update this method with the request headers which may prevent the timeout.

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I am trying to get data from Yahoo Finance on Excel on Mac.
As far as I know, the usual approach to get web data on Mac is WebQuery. However, sometimes it works without issues, sometimes throws an error 1004 for the same set of tickers it worked before without issue. Text of the error:
"Microsoft Excel cannot access the file %link%. There are several possible reasons:"
I have no clue why does that happen. The only suggestion is because the URL does not contain a cookie / crumb Yahoo needs.
For testing purposes, I used WinHttpRequest on Windows. It works - Excel successfully gets the data.
There's an alternative on Mac - Tim Hall's WebHelpers. I was able to get the cookie and the crumb on Mac with this great set of tools.
But when I try downloading the CSV from Yahoo the response.Content has this string: {"finance":{"result":null,"error":{"code":"Not Acceptable","description":"HTTP 406 Not Acceptable"}}}.
Generally, I have several questions:
Is there a way to add a cookie to the WebQuery approach? Still, I am not sure if that works and helps to evade the error.
Why does Response return Error 406? Particularly this code snippet:
client.BaseUrl = tickerURL
request.Method = HttpGet
request.Format = PlainText
request.AddCookie "Cookie", cookie
request.AddHeader "User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:46.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/46.0"
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Here's a code to receive Yahoo Finance data using either WinHttpRequest on Windows or Tim Hall's package on Mac:
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' forked from:
' http://investexcel.net/multiple-stock-quote-downloader-for-excel/
Dim resultFromYahoo As String
Dim objRequest
Dim csv_rows() As String
Dim tickerURL As String
'Make URL
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"?period1=" & StartDate & _
"&period2=" & EndDate & _
"&interval=" & frequency & "&events=history" & "&crumb=" & crumb
'***************************************************
'Get data from Yahoo
#If Mac Then
Dim client As New WebClient
Dim response As WebResponse
Dim request As New WebRequest
client.BaseUrl = tickerURL
request.Method = HttpGet
request.Format = PlainText
request.AddCookie "Cookie", cookie
request.AddHeader "User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:46.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/46.0"
Set response = client.Execute(request)
DoEvents
'' ERROR 406 on MAC ''
If response.StatusCode = Ok Then
resultFromYahoo = response.Content
Else
MsgBox "An error occured while getting data for " & stockTicker & "'", vbInformation
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End If
#Else
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We need to add 5 lines:
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' http://investexcel.net/multiple-stock-quote-downloader-for-excel/
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'***************************************************
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request.AddHeader "DNT", "1"
request.AddHeader "Connection", "close"
Set response = client.Execute(request)
DoEvents
If response.StatusCode = Ok Then
resultFromYahoo = response.Content
Else
MsgBox "An error occured while getting data for '" & stockTicker & "'", vbInformation
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I am beginner at VBA. I have done the below code by referring to lot of articles found online.
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''' I don't understand this part though '''
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