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KM007
Helper II
Helper II

Translate VBA into M or DAX to create a table

Hi

 

Is it possible to translate my VBA code below into M or DAX so the table is created in Power BI?

 

Sub HL_Sectors()

    Dim XMLPage As New MSXML2.XMLHTTP60
    Dim HTMLDoc As New MSHTML.HTMLDocument
    Dim HTMLSector As MSHTML.IHTMLElement
    Dim HTMLSectorID As MSHTML.IHTMLElement
    Dim RowNum As Long, ColNum As Integer
    
    XMLPage.Open "GET", "http://www.hl.co.uk/funds", False
    XMLPage.send
    
    HTMLDoc.body.innerHTML = XMLPage.responseText
    
    Set HTMLSector = HTMLDoc.getElementById("search-sector")

    Range("A:A").ClearContents
    
        RowNum = 1
        For Each HTMLSectorID In HTMLSector.getElementsByTagName("option")

            ColNum = 1
                Cells(RowNum, ColNum) = HTMLSectorID.innerText
                ColNum = ColNum + 1

            RowNum = RowNum + 1
        Next HTMLSectorID
    
End Sub

Thanks

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v-ljerr-msft
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

Hi @KM007,

 

As we're not very familiar with VBA, could you be more precisely with what you are trying to extract from that page? For most web pages, you should be able to use the Web connector in Power BI Desktop to extract data as mentioned by @Greg_Deckler above. Smiley Happy

 

Regards

Greg_Deckler
Community Champion
Community Champion

What is the information that you are trying to extract from that page? You would use the Get Data -> Web option and then you're going to just have to drill through the DOM until you find the right section.



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