How to find the title of an URL using VBA in MS Excel

Question

I am working on a VBA project to get Page title and created date from an URL. I found this code online but it's not working since IE is not available. Is there any way I can get the title without IE?

Function GetPageTitle(a As String)

Set ie = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
With ie
    .Visible = False
    .Navigate a
    Do Until .ReadyState = 4
        DoEvents
    Loop
    GetPageTitle = .document.Title
    .Quit
End With

End Function

I have tried to use Edge as Internet Explorer but it's not working. I have tried this code also HTML Page Title in Excel VBA

Answer 1

Get Webpage Title

Option Explicit

Sub GetPageTitleTEST()
    Const URL As String = "https://www.google.com"
    Dim PageTitle As String: PageTitle = GetPageTitle(URL)
    If Len(PageTitle) > 0 Then
        Debug.Print PageTitle
    Else
        Debug.Print "Nope."
    End If
End Sub

Function GetPageTitle( ByVal URL As String) As String
    Dim Response As String
    On Error GoTo ClearError

    With CreateObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP")
        .Open "Get", URL, False
        .send
        Response = .responseText
    End With

    With CreateObject("htmlfile")
        .body.innerHTML = Response
        GetPageTitle = .getElementsByTagName("title")(0).innerText
    End With

ProcExit:
    Exit Function
ClearError:
    Debug.Print "'GetPageTitle' Run-time error '" _
        & Err.Number & "':" & vbLf & "    " & Err.Description
    Resume ProcExit
End Function

Answer 2

If you want to automate Edge with VBA, you need to use SeleniumBasic. SeleniumBasic is a Selenium based browser automation framework for VB.Net, VBA and VBScript.

You can follow the steps below:

1. Download the latest version of SeleniumBasic v2.0.9.0 from this link and install it.
2. Download the corresponding version of Edge WebDriver from this link.
3. Find the path of SeleniumBasic which is C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\SeleniumBasic in my computer (it might also be in this path C:\Program Files\SeleniumBasic), copy the Edge WebDriver msedgedriver.exe to this path.
4. Rename msedgedriver.exe to edgedriver.exe.
5. Open Excel and write the VBA code.
6. In the VBA code interface, click Tools > References, add Selenium Type Library reference and click OK to save.
7. Sample VBA code to automate Edge using SeleniumBasic to get URL title:

Public Sub Selenium()
        Dim bot As New WebDriver
        bot.Start "edge", "https://www.bing.com"
        bot.Get "/"
        bot.Wait 5000
        Debug.Print bot.Window.Title  'this line of code can get title
End Sub