3 Steps to Scrape the Web with Microsoft Excel

January 25th, 2008

Microsoft Excel can be used as a screen scraper… easily. This is how you do it.

Step One:

Step Two:
You’ll see some little yellow arrow, click on them to get the content you want.

Excel Web Scraper

Step Three:

Click Import
Import

That’s it… you’ve scraped the web with Microsoft Excel.

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Nice idea! More versatile than simply taking a screenshot and putting it into Photoshop.

Rob
January 30th, 2008
Not exactly sure I’m following you here, but okay…

jason
January 31st, 2008
after saving the queries is there any way to automate it in a later period!!!

mukund
July 21st, 2008
great way to quickly scrape a page

joe
November 7th, 2009

RSSSubscribe, Dude.

OpenJason