Using Internet Explorer objects to scrape links from web pages.

Jerry Lees — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 06:17:54 +0000

Recently, I needed to write a tool that would scrape the links from a page. To accomplish this I used the Internet Explorer object “InternetExplorer.Application“. We’ll explain it a bit more in a later entry but for now, take a look at the code below:

URL = “http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itblogs/“

With CreateObject(“InternetExplorer.Application”)
.Navigate URL
Do Until .ReadyState = 4
Wscript.sleep 10
Loop
for each link in .document.links
Wscript.echo link, link.InnerText
next

‘ Uncomment the three lines below to scrape references to images
‘ for each pix in .document.images
‘ Wscript.echo pix.src
‘ Next

.Quit
End With

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Using Internet Explorer objects to scrape links from web pages.