In this tutorial we do some web scraping with Python and Beautiful Soup 4. The results are then saved to a CSV file which can be opened and analyzed in Microsoft Excel or another spreadsheet program. I show you how to select elements from the page, deal with 403 Forbidden errors by faking your user agent, and overcome cases where the website is poorly laid out for web scraping. The example used here is SocialBlade.
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Import JSON Data in Excel 2016 or 2019 or Office 365 using a Get & Transform Query
If you have data stored in JSON format that you would like to import into Excel, it’s now very easy and doesn’t require any VBA to import data locally from the disk or from a web API. Watch the video or read the steps below!