HTTP Get Request Using VBA in OSX Excel

Question

I\'m writing a very simple macro that needs to make an HTTP GET request to a server and the response is not important (it initiates a process on the server). The HTTP GET does N

Answer 1

Here is a piece of code that supports both OSX and Windows. I would credit the authors of this because I certainly didnt write this from scratch but I have lost track of where it all came from:

#If Win32 Then

Function getHTTP(URL As String, sQuery As String) As String
    Dim strResult As String
    Dim objHTTP As Object
    Set objHTTP = CreateObject("WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1")
    objHTTP.Open "GET", URL & "?" & sQuery, False
    objHTTP.setRequestHeader "User-Agent", "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)"
    objHTTP.send("")
    strResult = objHTTP.responseText
    getHTTP = strResult
End Function


#Else


Option Explicit
' execShell() function courtesy of Robert Knight via StackOverflow
' http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6136798/vba-shell-function-in-office-2011-for-mac
Private Declare Function popen Lib "libc.dylib" (ByVal command As String, ByVal mode As String) As Long
Private Declare Function pclose Lib "libc.dylib" (ByVal file As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function fread Lib "libc.dylib" (ByVal outStr As String, ByVal size As Long, ByVal items As Long, ByVal stream As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function feof Lib "libc.dylib" (ByVal file As Long) As Long


Function execShell(command As String, Optional ByRef exitCode As Long) As String
Dim file As Long
file = popen(command, "r")
If file = 0 Then
Exit Function
End If
While feof(file) = 0
Dim chunk As String
Dim read As Long
chunk = Space(50)
read = fread(chunk, 1, Len(chunk) - 1, file)
If read > 0 Then
chunk = Left$(chunk, read)
execShell = execShell & chunk
End If
Wend
exitCode = pclose(file)
End Function


Function getHTTP(sUrl As String, sQuery As String) As String
    Dim sCmd As String
    Dim sResult As String
    Dim lExitCode As Long
    sCmd = "curl --get -d """ & sQuery & """" & " " & sUrl
    sResult = execShell(sCmd, lExitCode)
    ' ToDo check lExitCode
    getHTTP = sResult
End Function

#End If