VBA HTML Scraping - '.innertext' from comp

Question

All,

I've created the following Module to scrape a single value (1m % change in London house prices) from the below address:

https://www.hometrack.com/uk/insight/uk-cities-house-price-index/

The specific value is nested within the following code:

The below VBA code is my attempt at scraping. I, perhaps wrongly, feel that I am very close to capturing the value - but the code will not work.

Does anyone know where I am going wrong here? It doesn't show an error message but also doesn't output any values.

 Sub HousePriceData()
        Dim wb As Workbook
        Dim ws As Worksheet
        Dim TxtRng As Range
        Dim ie As Object
        Dim V As Variant
        Dim myValue As Variant

        Set ie = CreateObject("INTERNETEXPLORER.APPLICATION")
        ie.NAVIGATE "https://www.hometrack.com/uk/insight/uk-cities-house-price-index/"
        ie.Visible = False

        While ie.ReadyState <> 4
            DoEvents
        Wend

        Set wb = ActiveWorkbook 
        Set ws = wb.Sheets("Input") 
        Set TxtRng = ws.Range("C15") 

        Set myValue = ie.document.getElementById("cities-index-table").getElementsByTagName("tr")(7).g‌​etElementsByTagName("td")(5) 

        TxtRng = myValue.innerText 
        End Sub

Answer 1

Try to use XHR and primitive parsing instead of awkward IE:

Sub Test()

    Dim strUrl As String
    Dim strTmp As String
    Dim arrTmp As Variant

    strUrl = "https://www.hometrack.com/uk/insight/uk-cities-house-price-index/"
    With CreateObject("MSXML2.XMLHttp")
        .Open "GET", strUrl, False
        .Send ""
        strTmp = .ResponseText
    End With
    arrTmp = Split(strTmp, ">London</a></td>", 2)
    strTmp = arrTmp(1)
    arrTmp = Split(strTmp, "<td>", 7)
    strTmp = arrTmp(6)
    arrTmp = Split(strTmp, "</td>", 2)
    strTmp = arrTmp(0)

    ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Input").Range("C15").Value = strTmp

End Sub

Answer 2

try use this

Dim Engmt As String

Engmt = "ERRORHERE"
On Error Resume Next
Engmt = Trim(ie.document.getElementById("cities-index-   table").getElementsByTagName("tr")(12).g‌​etElementsByTagName("td")(4).innerText)
On Error GoTo 0
If Engmt = "ERRORHERE" Then
TxtRng.Value = "ERROR"
Else
TxtRng.Value = Engmt
End If