Get URL Webpage Title With VBA Function
What This VBA Code Does
Manually copying and pasting website titles can be tedious, error-prone, and time-consuming. However, by writing a VBA macro function to automate this task, you can save valuable time and eliminate potential errors.
This VBA function can be particularly useful for web researchers, content creators, or marketing professionals who need to collect and analyze data from various websites, and want to streamline the process of extracting webpage titles into an Excel spreadsheet via the webpage URL.
VBA Code:
This VBA function will allow you to point to an Excel spreadsheet cell that stores a webpage URL.
If you are looking to pull webpages all from a single domain, you may opt to use the Domain variable within the function to shorten the URL paths you have on your spreadsheet. Otherwise, your cell values will need to have the entire URL path as their value.
Function GetWebpageTitle(cell As Range)
'PURPOSE: Excel Function to pull-in Webpage Title
'SOURCE: www.thespreadsheetguru.com
Dim URL As String
Dim Domain As String
Dim ReceivedHTML As String
Dim TitleTag_Start As Long
Dim TitleTag_End As Long
Dim Title As String
Dim objHttp As Object
'Domain Address to Prefix URL input (optional)
Domain = "https://www.TheSpreadsheetGuru.com"
'Full URL Path
URL = Domain & cell.Value
'Create HTTP Call
On Error GoTo InvalidDomain
Set objHttp = CreateObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP")
objHttp.Open "GET", URL, False
objHttp.Send ""
DoEvents
On Error GoTo 0
'Store URL Page HTML Code
ReceivedHTML = objHttp.ResponseText
'Search for Title Tags
TitleTag_Start = InStr(1, UCase(ReceivedHTML), "")
'Isolate Text Within Title Tags (if applicable)
If TitleTag_Start > 0 And TitleTag_End > 0 Then
TitleTag_Start = TitleTag_Start + Len("<TITLE>")
Title = Mid(ReceivedHTML, TitleTag_Start, TitleTag_End - TitleTag_Start)
End If
'Title Text Cleanup
Title = Replace(Title, "&", "&")
Title = Replace(Title, "'", "'")
Title = Replace(Title, """, Chr(34))
'Output Result
GetWebpageTitle = Title
'Reset Object Variable(s)
Set objHttp = Nothing
Exit Function
'ERROR MESSAGES
InvalidDomain:
'Output Error Value
GetWebpageTitle = "Invalid Domain or URL Address"
'Reset Object Variable(s)
Set objHttp = Nothing
End FunctionUsing VBA Code Found On The Internet
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Chris is a finance professional and Excel MVP recognized by Microsoft since 2016. With his expertise, he founded TheSpreadsheetGuru blog to help fellow Excel users, where he shares his vast creative solutions & expertise. In addition, he has developed over 7 widely-used Excel Add-ins that have been embraced by individuals and companies worldwide.