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When it comes to browser automation tasks in Excel VBA like filling a web form, login to a website etc. Most of them use Internet explorer by adding a reference to Microsoft Internet controls.VBA users have been using IE automation from many years and most of them still use it. But there is a problem with Internet explorer!

As we all know Internet explorer is the ‘God of all browsers’ – I mean we just use it to download other browsers because of its performance issues. Due to its poor performance automation also would be slow.Then why not use high performance browsers like chrome or firefox? Yes this post is all about browser automation in VBA using selenium VBA wrapper which enables automating high performance browsers like chrome and firefox with just few lines of code. What is SeleniumSelenium is a testing framework.

Selenium automates browsers. What you do with that power is entirely up to you. Primarily, it is for automating web applications for testing purposes, but is certainly not limited to just that.

Boring web-based administration tasks can (and should!) also be automated as well.Some good guy has written a.net wrapper for selenium which can be used in VBA and VB.net and that is the wrapper we are going to use in this tutorial. Prerequisites:. Basic knowledge of VBA. Microsoft Excel installed in windows OS – Selenium VBA wrapper is a windows COM library so it works only on windows. Selenium VBA wrapper library – you can download and install it from. Getting started with selenium VBA1.Open any excel file, go to code editor (Alt + f11) and create a sub. Hello Mukhtar,Yes that can be done, Previously I have made few bots in vb.net using selenium.

Best way to get started is using nuget package available here:If you are not familiar with using package manager then download Selenium web driver for.Net here:You can find it under C# language which is the same for VB.net too. Then add a reference to webdriver.dll and Import appropriate NameSpaces you need likeImports OpenQA.Selenium.FirefoxImports OpenQA.Selenium.ChromeBy default, only firefox works without any additional driver.

For chrome and other browsers you have to download appropriate drivers from the same link above. Hope that helps. I need to get the details from the tamilnadu election website. By clicking searchvoters and entering the voters epicno for ex: MSS3007457 it gives the all details of voters id. I need to save the details in excel format.all i need is the name,part no, slno and the voters constituency. I’ve voters epic number for checking in excel and i can only see the details in screen by running the macro which i learned from your site.

The direct link is“can you help me in this regard. Try this codeSub TestDim bot As New WebDriverDim r As LongDim c As Longbot.Start 'chrome', '/searchbyname.aspx'For r = 1 To Cells(Rows.Count, 1).End(xlUp).RowWith Sheets(1)c = 1bot.FindElementById('txtEpicno').SendKeys (CStr(.Cells(r, 1).Value))bot.FindElementById('btnEpic').Click If bot.FindElementById('lblmsg').Text Like 'Your Record is Not Available.' Then.Cells(r, c + 1).Value = 'Your Record is Not Available Now.

For Further Enquiry Please Call 1950.' Else.Cells(r, c + 1).Value = bot.FindElementById('lbnameen').Text.Cells(r, c + 2).Value = bot.FindElementById('lbparten').Text.Cells(r, c + 3).Value = bot.FindElementById('lbserialen').Text.Cells(r, c + 4).Value = bot.FindElementById('lbpartnameen').TextEnd IfEnd WithNext rEnd Sub. Hi, The best way to handle this issue is to use IsElementPresent method on name element, check if element is present, then use goto next to continue loop if name element is not present.Name element would be present in every voter for sure and also rendered server side if epic number is found so using IsElementPresent method is the right way in this case but this method is buggy in the latest version of Selenium wrapper.

So, Use the basic error handling that you mentioned above as a workaround for now. I would update you when IsElementPresent method is working fine. I’m trying to use selenium to automate some work in Chrome. When I try to open chrome using the code below I get an error in chrome that says “You are using an unsupported command-line flag: –ignore-certificate-errors. Stability and security will suffer.”Code:Sub OpenChromeDim selenium As New WebDriverselenium.Start “chrome”, “(“120000”)selenium.setImplicitWait (5000)End SubI’ve built macros with VBA that automate work in internet explorer before, but I haven’t done it for chrome. It sounds like using selenium is the best way to build macros for navigating through chrome and interacting with the web. What am I doing wrong to get this error?

Okay, I tested it out with the latest version of selenium wrapper and got the same error. So I looked into the chrome driver version and found out that it’s v 2.21while the latest version with bug fixes for chrome 54 is v 2.25.Selenium wrapper installer comes with v 2.21 so we have to manually update the driver.First download chrome driver 2.25 from here – then go to your selenium path – C:UsersusernameAppDataLocalSeleniumBasic and replace the chrome driver with the latest one and it should work fine.I’ll make a request to update the chrome driver in selenium wrapper installer. Meanwhile, manual updating is the way to go.The beauty of development is – We got to stay ahead of everyone 🙂.

I am very happy that i found your site finally. This site is awesome and very informative about different stuffs on complicated topics about which thousand others barely dare to deal with. Anyways, i got an issue in my written code. Gonna paste it underneath.

Something is wrong with this. Every time i run it, i get an error showing “run time error 13, type mismatch”. By the way, i am running this code into my excel VBA editor.Here is the code:Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Hi Shahin, There are few mistakes in your code. Use FindElementsByClass instead of FindElementByClass in set posts line because there are multiple elements. Define posts and post as object instead of webelements.Here’s the working code –Seems like you are using an old version of Selenium VBA which has OPEN method.

Install latest version and use GET method. Phantomjs is kind of unstable. It works sometimes, doesn’t work sometimes due to timeout issues. Use Chrome instead, It works perfectly. Also, try HTTP request method which I’ve used here – It will be 20 times faster than selenium 🙂. Hi,Great beginner tutorial to get me started, thanks!

I’m wondering though; can I late bind with selenium:I would like to create a macro that runs without library references. For IE that was just a case of swithcingDim bot As New InternetExplorer toDim bot As Object: Set bot = CreateObject('InternetExplorer.Application')and leaving everything else the sameHow do I do this for Selenium?Dim bot As Object: Set bot = CreateObject('Selenium.WebDriver') gives a run time error for ie, and an unknown error for edge.

Is there something else I should try? Thanks a lot, wow, didnt know it was that easy, but now i have another problem, there is no id in the webpage im trying to scrape, all are in class name it looks like thisGARDENA CANADA CORGARDENA CANADA is the string im trying to extract, but the span calss sc-attribute is same for all attributes, the attribute name is sc-grid-cell sc-grid-cell-brand but when i tried to extract the value it says some error as compound xxxxx. Seems like the space between the attribute is problem, any help is greatly appreciated.

Hi Ranjith,After I lernt and use json tutorial from you, I started with selenium now. I started with Simple Example provided by you.I have received an error, the details are as follow:Chrome: Version 65.0.3325.181 (Official Build) (64-bit)Error on line: bot.Start “chrome”, “in VBA: WebRequestError The underlying connection was closed. An unexpeted error occurred on a receive.Note: It opens new chrome window and alert displayed regarding “Disable developer mode extensions” with “Disable” and “Cancel” buttons.Refferances added in VBA:Visual Basic For ApplicationsMicrosoft Excel 16.0 Object LibraryMicrosoft Office 16.0 Object LibraryOLE AutomationSelenium Type Library (downloaded from the github link you mentioned)Please guide further.Thanks in advance,Jigar B. Hi Ranjith,I’m facing a tough problem, need your suggestions, I just make a try on a automation with selenium & excel vba. My target url is designed to generate a new pop up from the just beginning, I need to type username and password on the newly pop up window, and login to select some menu to download files.My codes can open Firefox with the url, but cannot recognize the element by all kinds of methods (I can see the element’s id and name by right click on mouse choosing inspect the element )in the login window, I guess my codes even cannot recognize the new window.

Because after pop up I use “windows.count” the feedback is 1. Is there method to recognize the new window, and then take use of its elements to type in. Thanks sincerely! Hi Ranjith,I’m new in web scrapping world using VBA, your post is very useful, thank you.I would like to avoid Firefox browser or Opera Browser (I use them mostly) load images. In web there are post for this but using Python, I have tried to write a script for VBA, but it does not work. If you have information I would like to know about how webdriver profiles and preferences works in VBA.I have used this:Private bot As Selenium.WebDriverPrivate Sub CommandButton1ClickSet bot = New Selenium.WebDriverbot.SetPreference 'permissions.default.image', 2bot.Start 'firefox', '/'bot.Window.MaximizeEnd SubBut, as I mentioned it does not work, I mean Firefox browser opens, loads the website but images are load too. I’m using Firefox 35, SeleniumBasic 2.09 and MS Excel 2010.

I would be thank if you have information as for Firefox as Opera.Congratulations for your website.!Thank You again.Greetings.! Hi,I have several questions about the vba code. I’m not sure where to find the materials to learn to execute the code.1) I want to click on this button withI tried the findElementByName, then by ID.

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But it didn’t work. Should I try with findElementsbyClass. But how I do that?2) I want to select Green in this code: DyedPinkGreenWhiteNaturalRedBlueOrangeNonewith: obj.FindElementByName(“SelectedFavoriteColor”).AsSelect.SelectByValue (G)but it wouldn’t work. You know why? Please let me know. In order for the Opera to work well with Selenium, you have to install it in the Program Files (x86) and replace its original driver in folder: C:UsersuserAppDataLocalSeleniumBasicwith the one coming from github:When I first tried to start Opera with VBA it didn’t work as it installs by default in a different location. You need to specify it yourself to be Program Files (x86).Then you just run it as, say:Dim driver as New Webdriverdriver.start “opera”, ““/”.

Good DayI am attempting to click on a folder created on google drive using Selenium VBA. Hi Ranjit,I have a very small issue,the first “IF” statement does it’s work, but the second “IF” doesn’t.I want the second “IF”statement to write “no data found” in excel sheet when the statement turns to be TRUE.But it leaves the call as blank.What can i do to change that?Please help me out.If bot.FindElementsByXPath(“//tr2//td7”).count 0 ThenRange(“C” & count) = bot.FindElementByXPath(“//tr2//td7”).TextIf bot.FindElementsByXPath(“//pcontains(text,’No Data Found.Check the Input Parameters’)”).count 0 ThenRange(“C” & count) = “No Data Found”.

See the end of this blog for the BBC and Google UK search form field names.From the above we can see that the search form with id search contains twocontrols which a user can interact with:. A textbox called SearchBox; and. A button called submit2.Now that we know what we're trying to look to in the Document ObjectModel, we can start writing our VBA. Referencing the Microsoft Internet ControlsThe next thing to do is to make sure that we can get VBA to talk to InternetExplorer. To do this, reference the object library calledMicrosoft Internet Controls (if you're not sure what references are,first).First, in VBA create a reference.