Importing Multiple External Web Data (Same site, slightly altered URLs stored in a sheet).

Hi,

I had a question that I searched for and did not really find a thread with answers for, although I admittedly did not dig very deeply into the archives.

My situations is as such:

I have a spreadsheet with about 170 URLs that are rather long. They are all in column A and listed with no other columns containing data. These URLs link to the results page of a search query on a textbook site: The search queries are all the same except for three variables, namely: "department," "class number" and "section". Thus, the URLs look something like this:

bookstore.com/department=????&course=???&section=???

The 170 URLs in this spreadsheet are all variations of this but contain the appropriate values for "department", "course" and "section". Thus, the first to URLs might looks like this:

bookstore.com/department=MATH&course=101&section=003
bookstore.com/department=BIOL&course=201&section=040

What I am trying to do is get external data from each of these URLs and place them in a different sheet. The URLs described above all point to the same table and format but with different results (required textbooks) that I want to record, so selecting the table with each data importation is not a issue because they are all the same table.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I should approach this? I have read that recording a data from the web query as a macro and then modifying its VBA code is a good way to go, but not only do I can an error message about "unable to record," but I also would later have trouble creating iterations that use the different variables values for each query contained in my spreadsheet of differing URLs.

Thanks,

adambk