Macro / VBA to fetch values from www.Eppraisal.com

Question

I need to fetch some values from www.Eppraisa.com using Excel Macro.

But I don't know what should be the value of PropID. That's why the macro works for URL1 but not for URL2 because I think URL2 has a wrong propID

Const URL1 As String = "http://www.eppraisal.com/home-values/property_lookup_eppraisal?a=1122%20E%20Loyola%20Dr&z=85282&propid=42382460"

Const URL2 As String = "http://www.eppraisal.com/home-values/property_lookup_eppraisal?a=19732%20E%20Reins%20Rd&z=85142&propid=31402642"

Sub xmlHttp() Dim xmlHttp As Object Set xmlHttp = CreateObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP")

' This works
xmlHttp.Open "GET", URL1, False

' But doesn't work for below url :(
'xmlHttp.Open "GET", URL2, False

xmlHttp.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "text/xml"


xmlHttp.send

Dim ieDom As New HTMLDocument
Dim html As Object
Set html = CreateObject("htmlfile")
html.body.innerHTML = xmlHttp.responseText
Debug.Print html.body.innerHTML
ieDom.body.innerHTML = xmlHttp.responseText

For Each ieInp In ieDom.getElementsByTagName("p")
    If ieInp.className = "ColorAccent6 FontBold FontSizeM Margin0 Padding0" Then
        strEppraisalValue = ieInp.innerText
    ElseIf ieInp.className = "FontSizeA Margin0 DisplayNone HighLow" Then
        strEppraisalHighLow = ieInp.innerText
    End If
Next End Sub

Can anybody please help? It would be a great help for me

Thanks.

Answer 1

With Mozilla Firefox & Firebug you can identify the request and response.

Below step applies to any search you make.

1 Copy the below URL to Firefox Browser.

http://www.eppraisal.com/home-values/property/1122-e-loyola-dr-tempe-az-85282-42382460/

2 Open Up FireBug and look for below request. Goto Net Tab > XHR as in below image.

3 Expand the node and goto Params tab. It shows all the input parameters which needs to go with the GET request.

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4 Finally we can see the response from server in the Response Tab.