Just a quick question seeing as you guys seem to be quite knowledgeable in this area. I recently found a pretty useful Niche Generator and business data site at http://findabusiness.org. I was just wondering, the owners said they are going to be putting up a lot of demographic data and income data. How would you suggest I scrape into an excel file?
The site simply uses Google and Yahoo APIs to return business information based on key words and location.
To scrape the results to Excel, you can use a web query. Construct the URL and pass it to a web query. For excample the URL structure for the key words "Microsoft Excel" in New York is http://findabusiness.org/search.php?business=microsoft+excel&location=new+york.
To load the web query with the key words and location from Excel cells as well as extracting a section of the page, record a macro when running the web query and modify accordingly along the same lines as the VBA in this post.
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