So here's the situation: I'm trying to download a number of pictures from an external server onto my local computer.
The Excel file has a link to the picture which will open and download the picture.
What I've tried so far is to convert the hyperlinks into just text (of the picture url) and run the following code.
I'm only basically familiar with VBA, more so with other languages though. Here is the code I have so far:
Option Explicit
Private Declare Function URLDownloadToFile Lib "urlmon" _
Alias "URLDownloadToFileA" (ByVal pCaller As Long, _
ByVal szURL As String, ByVal szFileName As String, _
ByVal dwReserved As Long, ByVal lpfnCB As Long) As Long
Dim Ret As Long
'~~> This is where the images will be saved. Change as applicable
Const FolderName As String = "C:\Users\My Name\Downloads\"
Sub DownloadLinks()
Dim ws As Worksheet
Dim LastRow As Long, i As Long
Dim strPath As String
'~~> Name of the sheet which has the list
Set ws = Sheets("Sheet1")
LastRow = ws.Range("B" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Row
For i = 2 To LastRow '<~~ 2 because row 1 has headers
strPath = FolderName & ws.Range("BP" & i).Value & ".jpg"
Ret = URLDownloadToFile(0, ws.Range("BP" & i).Value, strPath, 0, 0)
If Ret = 0 Then
ws.Range("CA" & i).Value = "File successfully downloaded"
Else
ws.Range("CA" & i).Value = "Unable to download the file"
End If
Next i
End Sub
The column names are irrelevant, but right now, everything comes out as "Unable to download file" or if it is successful, it isn't in the directory I specified.
Is there a better way to code this?
Something about my data maybe?
I'd also like it to save the file name as text in another column if possible, but that isn't necessary.
Right now I just need them to get downloaded.