Just a self update. I played with the Macro Recorder and managed to build a macro (with some tweaking) to filter by the HTML I pasted in, text-to-column til I got my number, and pasted it into another worksheet.
Going to keep researching. It seems like with some solid VBA code I can accomplish this. On top of that I'm realizing that these macros can save me a ton of time! I'm still open to pointers or ideas to this project. On Tuesday, December 3, 2013 4:01:44 PM UTC-5, Matt Watson wrote: > > > > Hello all, joined this group today. > > I like to think I'm quite handy with excel, but the uses are so broad I > may only know 5%! I work for a car dealership and my excel skills come in > handy on a regular basis. A huge part of the business today is your website > and inventory listings. A sneaky model-wide price reduction can really > affect how you perform in a month in comparison to your competition and > unfortunately I just learned this the hard way. > > My goal lately has been to devise a way to either watch for changes, or > hopefully to extract my competitor's website pricing so I can catch a > sneaky price drop or recognize an opportunity for myself. I have tried > browser extensions and various websites to notify of changes, but > everything requires a large amount of coding knowledge that I either do not > have, or do not have time to learn. My next idea is possibly using excel! > Despite being quite handy, I strangely have never played with macros - > probably could have saved me days of work in the past. > > So here's my objective. I want to either extract values straight off my > competitor's site, or paste the HTML code and then run a macro. I would > like to have the data easily accessible and done without too much hassle. > > I have pasted in the raw HTML before, but it took what felt like 40 steps > (only using formulas and text-to-columns) to extract the exact data I > needed. I realize I could go through all that again and record a macro, but > I'm hoping some brilliant mind here may have a better solution. This will > be a daily activity for me so the quicker, the better. Keep in mind that I > have 0 experience with Excel Macros, but am handy with excel and a computer > so I'm not opposed to, or worried about getting my hands dirty. I'm sure > the knowledge will reflect into many other of my duties. > > Thanks! > -- Are you =EXP(E:RT) or =NOT(EXP(E:RT)) in Excel? And do you wanna be? It’s =TIME(2,DO:IT,N:OW) ! Join official Facebook page of this forum @ https://www.facebook.com/discussexcel FORUM RULES 1) Use concise, accurate thread titles. Poor thread titles, like Please Help, Urgent, Need Help, Formula Problem, Code Problem, and Need Advice will not get quick attention or may not be answered. 2) Don't post a question in the thread of another member. 3) Don't post questions regarding breaking or bypassing any security measure. 4) Acknowledge the responses you receive, good or bad. 5) Jobs posting is not allowed. 6) Sharing copyrighted material and their links is not allowed. NOTE : Don't ever post confidential data in a workbook. Forum owners and members are not responsible for any loss. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MS EXCEL AND VBA MACROS" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to excel-macros+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to excel-macros@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/excel-macros. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
