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How do I get VBA to submit a javascript form?

I am not sure if I am referencing the button correctly. I keep on getting:
Run-time error '438': Object doesn't support this property or method.
This is what my code looks like at the moment:
Sub russInd()
Dim oButton As Object, HTMLdoc As Object
Dim sht1 As Worksheet, myURL As String
Set ie = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
Set sht1 = Worksheets("Day 1")
myURL = sht1.Cells(32, 2).Value
ie.navigate myURL
ie.Visible = True
Do Until ie.ReadyState = 4
DoEvents
Loop
'Locate The correct forms and buttons
Set HTMLdoc = ie.document
Set oButton = HTMLdoc.querySelectorAll("a[href='javascript:submitForm(document.forms[0].action);']")
'Check All Checkboxes
HTMLdoc.getElementByID("chkAll").Click
oButton.Click
End Sub
The webpage I am using is:
https://indexcalculator.ftserussell.com/
Here is the webpage code:
I need to click the next button, I did try using
.getElementByID("CtlNavigation_lblControl")
To click the button, however that just skipped over the command, I guess it clicked nothing. Thanks!

querySelectorAll returns a nodelist. You likely want querySelector
Try
HTMLdoc.getElementById("CtlNavigation_lblControl").querySelector("a").Click
or
HTMLdoc.querySelector("CtlNavigation_lblControl a").Click

Set your selector to this: (It's saying look for any image in a parent A element.)
Set oButton = HTMLdoc.querySelectorAll("a > img")
Here is the full code with the modification:
Sub russInd()
Dim oButton As Object, HTMLdoc As Object
Dim sht1 As Worksheet, myURL As String
Set ie = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
Set sht1 = Worksheets("Day 1")
myURL = sht1.Cells(32, 2).Value
ie.navigate myURL
ie.Visible = True
Do Until ie.ReadyState = 4
DoEvents
Loop
'Locate The correct forms and buttons
Set HTMLdoc = ie.document
Set oButton = HTMLdoc.querySelectorAll("a > img")
'Check All Checkboxes
HTMLdoc.getElementByID("chkAll").Click
oButton.Click
End Sub

Use the following selector as it works across all steps. The number of child a elements within the parent with id Ctlnavigation2_lblControl changes so the following is a robust way to always get what you want across pages.
HTMLdoc.querySelector("#Ctlnavigation2_lblControl [href*=action]").Click
Your error, as partially correct in comments, is that you are trying to use a method of certain node types e.g. a tag element on a nodeList (which is what querySelectorAll returns). It does NOT return a collection. That is a very important distinction in VBA. If you try to For Each, as you would with a collection, over that nodeList Excel will crash.

getting values from table and looking them for url values

okay so i am looking to scrap some dating from a web page and i cant seem to make it dynamic.
I need to lookup an element tag "th" that has a value of "level" and then grab the corresponding "td" element tag
This information is coming from an html table with a hiarchy of:
{table
-tbody
--tr
---th
---td
--tr
---th
---td}
here is the start of my code:
{
Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
If Target.Row = Range("link").Row And _
Target.Column = Range("link").Column Then
Dim ie As New InternetExplorer
ie.Visible = True
ie.navigate Range("link").Value
Do
DoEvents
Loop Until ie.readyState = READYSTATE_COMPLETE
Dim doc As HTMLDocument
Set doc = ie.document
Dim sTR As String
sTR = doc.getElementsByTagName("th")(5).textContent
MsgBox sTR
End If
End Sub
}
I get this far but I have found that the "th" dosnt match every webpage that i am looking for. sometimes "th" 5 dosnt have the same value that i need.

VBA To Extract HTML CDATA

I am trying to use Excel VBA to copy the URL content in between the CData nodes from a list of websites with the same html format. The HTML sample is here:
<script>
//<![CDATA[
Wistia.iframeInit({"assets":[{"type":"original","slug":"original","display_name":
"Original file","ext":"mp4","size":2,"bitrate":2677,"public":true,
"url":"https://embed-ssl.wistia.com/deliveries/1.bin"},
{"type":"original","slug":"original","display_name":"Original file",
"ext":"mp4","size":1,"bitrate":2677,"public":true,
"url":"https://embed-ssl.wistia.com/deliveries/2.bin"},
//]]>
</script>
I am unable to extract the CDATA information with excel VBA alone it seems. Each time I use the following script below, I obtain either blank or "[object HTMLScriptElement]"
Sub test()
Dim ie As Object
Dim html As Object
Dim mylinks As Object
Dim link As Object
Dim lastRow As Integer
Dim myURL As String
Dim erow As Long
Set ie = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
lastRow = Sheet1.Cells(Rows.Count, "A").End(xlUp).Row
For i = 2 To lastRow
myURL = Sheet1.Cells(i, "A").Value
ie.navigate myURL
ie.Visible = False
While ie.readyState <> 4
DoEvents
Wend
Set html = ie.document
Set mylinks = html.getElementsByName("script")(1).innerText
For Each link In mylinks
erow = Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(Rows.Count, 1).End(xlUp).Offset(1, 0).Row
Cells(erow, 1).Value = link
Cells(erow, 1).Columns.AutoFit
Next
End Sub

As of my experiences, automating the Internet Explorer is highly unstable. So I would use XMLHTTP as long as possible. Of course your HTML tag soup is not XML and cannot be parsed as such. But we can at least get the responseText with XMLHTTP and then using text methods further.
Example:
Sub test()
sURL = "https://fast.wistia.net/embed/iframe/vud7ff4i6w"
Dim oXMLHTTP As Object
Set oXMLHTTP = CreateObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP")
oXMLHTTP.Open "GET", sURL, False
oXMLHTTP.Send
sResponseText = oXMLHTTP.responseText
aScriptParts = Split(sResponseText, "<script", , vbTextCompare) 'separate in parts delimited with <script
For i = LBound(aScriptParts) + 1 To UBound(aScriptParts) 'lbound+1 because the first part should not be script. It is the body html.
sScriptPart = Split(aScriptParts(i), "</script", , vbTextCompare)(0) 'only the part before </script belongs to the script
MsgBox sScriptPart
Next
End Sub
You could also use regular expressions instead of the Split approach to separate the script parts from the whole text. But this you should ask the RegEx specialists with a separate question then. I'm not such a RegEx specialist.

VBA getting data seen in Javascript tooltip

I am trying to extract the data that a javascript tooltip displays, but have no idea how to do it. I thought maybe an XMLHTTP request needs to be sent to the server, but honestly I am not sure. Below is the JS tooltip code to show and hide the tool tip. Is there something else I have to look for other than this to help me get the information that the tooltip shows and put that data in an excel sheet? I really would like some help from beginning to end on this, because I honestly do not know how to start it. Thank you very much.
< a href="javascript:gotopage('D35555')" on mouse over="ajax_showTooltip('D35555','DATA_PAGE',this);return false" on mouse out="ajax_hideTooltip()" >
Here is a link below to Mr. Excel, that I posted the question on, but I do no think they understand what I am trying to do. Thank you
http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/excel-questions/827332-parsing-javascript-%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A-text.html

Try something like that to read parent file
Function GetHTML(URL As String) As String
Dim HTML As String
With CreateObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP")
.Open "GET", URL, False
.Send
GetHTML = .ResponseText
End With
End Function
From Reading HTML file in VBA Excel
Then find anchor tags as shown in code below
Private Sub SomeMethod()
Dim URL As String, Result As String
URL = "http://localhost/ajax-tooltip/ajax-tooltip.html"
Result = GetHTML(URL)
Dim Document As Object
Set Document = New HTMLDocument
Dim HTMLElement As IHTMLElement
Document.Open
Document.write Result
Document.Close
Dim ElementCollection As IHTMLElementCollection
Set ElementCollection = Document.getElementsByTagName("a")
Dim mouseOverValue As String
For Each HTMLElement In ElementCollection
If Not IsNull(HTMLElement.getAttribute("onmouseover")) Then
mouseOverValue = HTMLElement.getAttribute("onmouseover")
If InStr(mouseOverValue, "ajax_showTooltip") Then
MsgBox ("Find your page here and read its HTML: " + mouseOverValue)
End If
End If
Next HTMLElement
End Sub
Parse mouseOverValue to get value of tooltip page and call GetHTML again for tooltip page

VBA: Access LocalStorage from InternetExplorer object

Is there an easier / direct way to access localstorage variables from an Internet Explorer object except for executing JS to create the value on the DOM ?
I have my own custom solution utilizing a temporary textfield but I wonder if MS provides a direct function.
Function retrieveLocalStorageValue(sURL As String, sLocalStorageVarName As String) As String
On Error GoTo ErrHandler1:
Dim javascriptString As String
Set oBrowser = New InternetExplorer
oBrowser.Silent = True
oBrowser.navigate sURL
oBrowser.Visible = True
Do
' Wait till the Browser is loaded
Loop Until oBrowser.readyState = READYSTATE_COMPLETE
On Error GoTo ErrHandlerJscript:
javastringUrl = "document.body.innerHTML += '<input id=\""test1234\"" type=\""text\"" value=\""'+ localStorage.getItem('" & sLocalStorageVarName & "') +'\""\>';"
'Execute javascript to create hidden field - Use double quotes in VBA to escape
'Wait in case it is needed
Application.Wait DateAdd("s", 1, Now)
oBrowser.document.parentWindow.eval javastringUrl
retrieveLocalStorageValue = oBrowser.document.getElementById("test1234").getAttribute("value")
Exit Function
ErrHandler1:
MsgBox ("Error, debugging required")
retrieveLocalStorageValue = "error"
ErrHandlerJscript:
MsgBox ("Error with javascript execution, debugging required")
retrieveLocalStorageValue = "error"
End Function
Sub test()
Dim test As String
test = retrieveLocalStorageValue("http://127.0.0.1/stackexchange/localStorageVBA.html", "testObject")
MsgBox test
End Sub
Reference: http://maythesource.com/2014/04/22/vba-read-localstorage-variable-from-internet-explorer-object-using-temporary-textfield/

No not really. Yes, you can set a reference to Microsoft Internet Explorer and a reference to Microsoft HTML Object Library. This will allow you to access the DOM object model directly, and the intellisense will work. But if you actually try to access the property, it will throw an error. (As demonstrated below:)
Option Explicit
Sub Example()
ThisFails "http://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml5_webstorage_local", "lastname"
End Sub
Function ThisFails(ByVal sURL As String, ByVal sLocalStorageVarName As String) As String
Dim oBrowser As SHDocVw.InternetExplorer
Dim hDoc As MSHTML.HTMLDocument
Dim hWin As MSHTML.HTMLWindow2
Set oBrowser = New SHDocVw.InternetExplorer
oBrowser.Silent = True
oBrowser.Navigate sURL
oBrowser.Visible = True
Do
' Wait till the Browser is loaded
Loop Until oBrowser.ReadyState = READYSTATE_COMPLETE
Do
Set hDoc = oBrowser.Document
'Trust me on these loops
Loop While hDoc Is Nothing
Do
Set hWin = hDoc.parentWindow
Loop While hWin Is Nothing
ThisFails = hWin.localStorage.getItem(sLocalStorageVarName)
End Function