VBA Macro that scrapes HTML pulls some wrong elements

Question

I am having problem scraping some HTML.

Here is the URL where my macro is scrapping and below is the excerpt of the code:

Set els = IE.Document.getelementsbytagname("a")
    For Each el In els
        If Trim(el.innertext) = "Documents" Then
            colDocLinks.Add el.href
        End If
    Next el

As you can see if you open the URL we run into search results; then the macro finds all links in the search table and puts them in a Collection named colDocLinks

However the search results have on their table 10-Q documents which i want to include but they also have different kind of animals which i do not want to include like 10-Q/A documents...

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How can i modify the loop so that it explicitly adds only 10-Q's with nothing attached to them in the collection and not others like 10-Q/A's?

Answer 1

Public WithEvents objIE As InternetExplorer


Sub LaunchIE()
Set objIE = New InternetExplorer

objIE.Visible = True
objIE.Navigate "http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=icld&type=10-Q%20&dateb=&owner=exclude&count=20"

End Sub

Private Sub objIE_DocumentComplete(ByVal pDisp As Object, URL As Variant)

Dim localIE As InternetExplorer
Set localIE = pDisp

Dim doc As MSHTML.IHTMLDocument3
Set doc = localIE.Document

Dim tdElements As MSHTML.IHTMLElementCollection
Dim td As MSHTML.IHTMLElement
Set tdElements = doc.getElementsByTagName("td")
For Each td In tdElements

    If td.innerText = "10-Q" Then

        Dim tr As MSHTML.IHTMLElement
        Set tr = td.parentElement

        Dim childrenElements As MSHTML.IHTMLElementCollection
        Dim child As MSHTML.IHTMLElement
        Set childrenElements = tr.Children
        For Each child In childrenElements
            If child.innerText = " Documents" Then
                'Handle found element
            End If
        Next

    End If

Next

End Sub

Answer 2

I would use a regular expression to find and extract the exact links I was looking for. Something like this:

Dim RegEx As RegExp
Set RegEx = New RegExp
Dim match As match

With RegEx
    .IgnoreCase = True
    .Global = True
    .MultiLine = True
End With

RegEx.Pattern = "<td nowrap="nowrap">10-Q</td>.+?<a href=""(.+?)\.htm"">"

For Each match In RegEx.Execute(Selection)
    colDocLinks.Add match
Next

I didn't test the regular expression above, so it may need some adjustment. You would need to include a reference to Microsoft VBScript Regular Expressions 5.5 for this to work.