web scraping using excel and VBA - excel

Question

i wrote my VBA code in excel sheet as below but it is not scrape data for me and also i don't know why please any one help me. it gave me reullt as "click her to read more" onlyi want to scrape enitre data such as first name last name state zip code and so on
Sub extractTablesData()
Dim IE As Object, obj As Object
Dim myState As String
Dim r As Integer, c As Integer, t As Integer
Dim elemCollection As Object
Set IE = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
myState = InputBox("Enter the city where you wish to work")
With IE
.Visible = True
.navigate ("http://www.funeralhomes.com/go/listing/Search? name=&city=&state=&country=USA&zip=&radius=")
While IE.readyState <> 4
DoEvents
Wend
For Each obj In IE.document.all.item("state").Options
If obj.innerText = myState Then
obj.Selected = True
End If
Next obj
IE.document.getElementsByValue("Search").item.Click
Do While IE.Busy: DoEvents: Loop
ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Sheet1").Range("A1:K1500").ClearContents
Set elemCollection = IE.document.getElementsByTagName("TABLE")
For t = 0 To (elemCollection.Length - 1)
For r = 0 To (elemCollection(t).Rows.Length - 1)
For c = 0 To (elemCollection(t).Rows(r).Cells.Length - 1)
ThisWorkbook.Worksheets(1).Cells(r + 1, c + 1) = elemCollection(t).Rows(r).Cells(c).innerText
Next c
Next r
Next t
End With
Set IE = Nothing
End Sub

Answer 1

Using the same URL as the answer already given you could alternatively select with CSS selectors to get the elements of interest, and use split to get just the names and address parts from the text. We can also do away with the browser altogether to get faster results from first results page.
Business name:
You can get the name with the following selector (using paid listing example):
div.paid-listing .listing-title
This selects (sample view)
Try
Address info:
The associated descriptive information can be retrieved with the selector:
div.paid-listing .address-summary
And then using split we can parse this into just the address information.
Code:
Option Explicit
Public Sub GetTitleAndAddress()
Dim oHtml As HTMLDocument, nodeList1 As Object, nodeList2 As Object, i As Long
Const URL As String = "http://www.funeralhomes.com/go/listing/ShowListing/USA/New%20York/New%20York"
Set oHtml = New HTMLDocument
With CreateObject("WINHTTP.WinHTTPRequest.5.1")
.Open "GET", URL, False
.send
oHtml.body.innerHTML = .responseText
End With
Set nodeList1 = oHtml.querySelectorAll("div.paid-listing .listing-title")
Set nodeList2 = oHtml.querySelectorAll("div.paid-listing .address-summary")
With Worksheets("Sheet3")
.UsedRange.ClearContents
For i = 0 To nodeList1.Length - 1
.Range("A" & i + 1) = nodeList1.Item(i).innerText
.Range("B" & i + 1) = Split(nodeList2.Item(i).innerText, Chr$(10))(0)
Next i
End With
End Sub
Example output:

Answer 2

Yeah, without an API, this can be very tricky at best, and very inconsistent at worst. For now, you can try the script below.
Sub DumpData()
Set IE = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
IE.Visible = True
URL = "http://www.funeralhomes.com/go/listing/ShowListing/USA/New%20York/New%20York"
'Wait for site to fully load
IE.Navigate2 URL
Do While IE.Busy = True
DoEvents
Loop
RowCount = 1
With Sheets("Sheet1")
.Cells.ClearContents
RowCount = 1
For Each itm In IE.document.all
If itm.classname Like "*free-listing*" Or itm.classname Like "*paid-listing*" Then
.Range("A" & RowCount) = itm.classname
.Range("B" & RowCount) = Left(itm.innertext, 1024)
RowCount = RowCount + 1
End If
Next itm
End With
End Sub
You probably want some kind of input box to capture the city and state and radius from the user, or capture those variable in cells in your worksheet.
Notice, the '%20' is a space character.
I got this idea from a friend of mine, Joel, a long time ago. That guy is great!