Bring the Power of the Internet into Excel—Automatically

Why copy and paste from websites when Excel can pull, process, and update the data for you? With a few clicks—or a few lines of VBA—you can connect Excel directly to the web, download fresh data, interact with sites, and even automate browsers to do the work for you.

In Excel and the World Wide Web: Straight to the Point, automation expert Eduardo N. Sanchez shows you how to break Excel out of its spreadsheet bubble and turn it into a full-on web-enabled powerhouse. Whether you want stock quotes, sports scores, market data, or any live information, you’ll learn the fastest ways to get it—cleanly and reliably—into your workbooks.

Inside, you’ll discover how to:

Run static and dynamic web queries with just a few clicks

Use VBA to pull data from the web, even without opening a browser

Work with HTML, JSON, and authenticated requests

Automate Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Edge with VBA and Selenium

Extract data from tables, iFrames, and hidden page elements

Download files and generate PDFs from scratch

Use Power Query to connect, transform, and refresh online data sources

Whether you’re an analyst tracking real-time data, a business user building dashboards, or a developer automating reporting, this book gives you the step-by-step techniques and working code to make Excel your gateway to the World Wide Web.

Stop hunting for data—let Excel fetch it for you.