Comments on: Web Query Lessons http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2010/03/02/web-query-lessons/ Daily posts of Excel tips…and other stuff Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:28:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Mario http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2010/03/02/web-query-lessons/#comment-47096 Mario Fri, 18 Jun 2010 23:09:00 +0000 http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/?p=3634#comment-47096 <p>I made a kind of web service to feed data from Excel to a DB. Works great. The problem I have<br> with WebQuerys is that it doesn't seems to recognize tables from pages that are designed<br> with divs instead of table layouts... kind of a bummer.</p> I made a kind of web service to feed data from Excel to a DB. Works great. The problem I have
with WebQuerys is that it doesn’t seems to recognize tables from pages that are designed
with divs instead of table layouts… kind of a bummer.

]]> By: Rick Williams http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2010/03/02/web-query-lessons/#comment-44856 Rick Williams Fri, 26 Mar 2010 01:41:00 +0000 http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/?p=3634#comment-44856 <p>I once had a spreadsheet that scraped for webpage links and a countdown timer, and at the specified time followed the link and retrieved the next page. It was also from a website that required my login. </p> <p>I recall that I had to log in to the site in a regular IE window, then the web queries in Excel would work... until the cookie expired. So based on that, I would suggest that the cookies ARE shared with IE, or at least Excel has read only access to IE's cookies...</p> <p>Ah the things one does to get some sleep when playing a 24/7(/52) browser game...</p> I once had a spreadsheet that scraped for webpage links and a countdown timer, and at the specified time followed the link and retrieved the next page. It was also from a website that required my login.

I recall that I had to log in to the site in a regular IE window, then the web queries in Excel would work… until the cookie expired. So based on that, I would suggest that the cookies ARE shared with IE, or at least Excel has read only access to IE’s cookies…

Ah the things one does to get some sleep when playing a 24/7(/52) browser game…

]]> By: Kevin http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2010/03/02/web-query-lessons/#comment-44360 Kevin Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:52:00 +0000 http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/?p=3634#comment-44360 <p>The tricky part is selecting the table. The yellow marks for table identification in IE is different than a table in Excel. HTML view of tables is not necessarily tables but css style sheet layouts. Danger Will Robinson.</p> The tricky part is selecting the table. The yellow marks for table identification in IE is different than a table in Excel. HTML view of tables is not necessarily tables but css style sheet layouts. Danger Will Robinson.

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