Convert HTML-table to Excel using VBA

Question

Convert HTML-table to Excel

The code below fetches the HTML-table at https://rasmusrhl.github.io/stuff, and converts it to Excel-format.

The pr

Answer 1

With the url https://rasmusrhl.github.io/stuff, it's by luck that Excel can simply just open it directly and save as .xlsx (how come no one try this before the tedious process). If direct open fails, all other methods here are great option!

Option Explicit

Sub OpenWebFile()
    Const URL As String = "https://rasmusrhl.github.io/stuff"
    Dim oWB As Workbook
    On Error Resume Next
    Set oWB = Workbooks.Open(Filename:=URL, ReadOnly:=True)
    If oWB Is Nothing Then
        MsgBox "Cannot open the url " & URL, vbExclamation + vbOKOnly, "ERR " & Err.Number & ":" & Err.Description
        Err.Clear
    Else
        ' Change to your desired path and filename
        oWB.SaveAs Filename:="C:\Test\stuff.xlsx", FileFormat:=xlOpenXMLWorkbook
        Set oWB = Nothing
    End If
End Sub