That is when VBA with some Regular Expressions will be better suited.
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In some more complex cases when trying to extract data from Web Pages it might be too hard to understand how to get a particular part of the page albeit we see where the data is located on the source code of the web page. In the second part, for more advanced users, I will show you how you can use VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) and a simple Web Scraping macro code to extract the information from the API or Web page. Power Query is useful when you are processing well structured data such as XML, JSON or a single Web Page HMTL. In the first part of this article, for beginners, I will show you how to use the Power Query – Data from Web feature in Excel (only newer versions of Excel) to extract the price of Bitcoin into your spreadsheet. You can use the methods shown below easily to track the price of other cryptocurrencies – provided you can found some online API or Web Page. With only a little mix of Power Query or VBA/Web Scraping you can easily extract the current Bitcoin price and reuse it in your Excel spreadsheet calculations. However, why not use Excel – and for that purpose, how to get Bitcoin in Excel using a formula? There is no ready formula in Excel but it turns out it is not so hard.
Recently the price of Bitcoin has skyrocketed again and many people keep refreshing their phones and browsers to be on top of current price fluctuations.
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