Updating Access Data with Internet Files

[Artemis Hothmire]

Good morning,

I am new to Microsoft Acces and am still earning my degree in Data Programming. I am currently updating a database I built, so that will be able to go to a certain webpage and download certain content with a built in Macro. Is that possible? how would I go about building that?

It might be difficult to do this as the website mandates that i have certain credentials in order to access the files.

Also, is it possible to to download files that change their extension name? Some of files that I want to download have numbers on the end of their extension that generate randomly.

Thank you for your reply. All of you have been an immense help and I appreciate all you do and have helped me with. If I could I would buy you a round of drinks at the bar.

-Artemis

 

[spikepl]

The search terms you are looking for is

screen scraping

You may also want to look at this thread: http://www.access-programmers.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=176968

Finally, work on your googling skills, because all these things you ought to have found by yourself. 99% of issues you face have been dealt with. Finding those solutions efficiently is just as important as learning programming.

 

[Artemis Hothmire]

your awesome spikepl!!