Need first Google search result for 900 cells

Hello! I have a list of 900 company names that I need to google to get their website. Usually when I search for the company name the first search result is their website. I tried using the UDF below but when I enter the formula and select the cell I get #VALUE!. I've tried manually typing it in, making sure the cells are formatted as Text, but it still doesn't work. What could be the problem here?


I also tried using the macro below but I don't know how to modify it for Chrome instead of IE. Also, I tried running it and it always crashes excel, I also got the error about "objH3" not being defined.


TIA!



The UDF code I'm using:


Option Explicit


Function GoogleFirstUrl(search As String) As String


Dim i As Long
Dim url As String, lastRow As Long
Dim XMLHTTP As Object, html As Object, objResultDiv As Object, objH3 As Object, link As Object


lastRow = Range("A" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Row


Dim cookie As String
Dim result_cookie As String


DoEvents
url = "https://www.google.co.in/search?q=" & search & "&rnd=" & WorksheetFunction.RandBetween(1, 10000)


Set XMLHTTP = CreateObject("MSXML2.serverXMLHTTP")
XMLHTTP.Open "GET", url, False
XMLHTTP.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "text/xml"
XMLHTTP.setRequestHeader "User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/75.0.3770.90 Safari/537.36"
XMLHTTP.send


Set html = CreateObject("htmlfile")
html.body.innerHTML = XMLHTTP.ResponseText
Set objResultDiv = html.getelementbyid("rso")
Set objH3 = objResultDiv.getelementsbytagname("H3")(0)
Set link = objH3.getelementsbytagname("a")(0)


GoogleFirstUrl = link.href


End Function





The macro I tried:


Sub XMLHTTP()


Dim url As String, lastRow As Long, i As Long
Dim XMLHTTP As Object, html As Object, objResultDiv As Object, objH3 As Object, link As Object
Dim start_time As Date
Dim end_time As Date


lastRow = Range("A" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Row


Dim cookie As String
Dim result_cookie As String


start_time = Time
Debug.Print "start_time:" & start_time


For i = 2 To lastRow


url = "https://www.google.co.in/search?q=" & Cells(i, 1) & "&rnd=" & WorksheetFunction.RandBetween(1, 10000)


Set XMLHTTP = CreateObject("MSXML2.serverXMLHTTP")
XMLHTTP.Open "GET", url, False
XMLHTTP.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "text/xml"
XMLHTTP.setRequestHeader "User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:25.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/25.0"
XMLHTTP.send


Set html = CreateObject("htmlfile")
html.body.innerHTML = XMLHTTP.ResponseText
Set objResultDiv = html.getelementbyid("rso")


Set objH3 = objResultDiv.getelementsbytagname("h3")




For Each link In objH3


If link.className = "r" Then


Cells(i, 2) = link.innerText
Cells(i, 3) = link.getelementsbytagname("a")(0).href
DoEvents
End If
Next
Next


end_time = Time
Debug.Print "end_time:" & end_time


Debug.Print "done" & "Time taken : " & DateDiff("n", start_time, end_time) & " :minutes"
MsgBox "done" & "Time taken : " & DateDiff("n", start_time, end_time)
End Sub

Welcome to the forum! Please paste code between code tags. Click the # icon on the reply toolbar to insert the tags.

You will need to get one run to work before trying something else. The return errors but you can see the response text in the Immediate window after running the test sub. Manually viewing the source code for the website might show you if you have the element IDs set.

Code:

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Sub Test_GoogleFirstUrl() 
  MsgBox GoogleFirstUrl("Google")
End Sub


Function GoogleFirstUrl(search As String) As String
  Dim i As Long, url As String, lastRow As Long
  'Tools > References > Microsoft XML, v6.0
  Dim XMLHTTP As Object, html As Object, objResultDiv As Object, objH3 As Object, link As Object
  Dim cookie As String, result_cookie As String
 
  lastRow = Range("A" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Row
 
  DoEvents
  'url = "https://www.google.co.in/search?q=" & search & "&rnd=" & WorksheetFunction.RandBetween(1, 10000)
  url = "https://www.google.co.in/search?q=" & search & "&rnd=1"
  Set XMLHTTP = CreateObject("MSXML2.serverXMLHTTP")
  XMLHTTP.Open "GET", url, False
  XMLHTTP.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "text/xml"
  XMLHTTP.setRequestHeader "User-Agent", _
    "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) " & _
    "Chrome/75.0.3770.90 Safari/537.36"
  XMLHTTP.send
 
  Set html = CreateObject("htmlfile")
  html.body.innerHTML = XMLHTTP.ResponseText
  Set objResultDiv = html.getelementbyid("rso")
  Set objH3 = objResultDiv.getelementsbytagname("H3")(0)
  Set link = objH3.getelementsbytagname("a")(0)
 
  'GoogleFirstUrl = link.
  Debug.Print XMLHTTP.ResponseText
End Function




Sub XMLHTTP()
  Dim url As String, lastRow As Long, i As Long
  Dim XMLHTTP As Object, html As Object, objResultDiv As Object, objH3 As Object, link As Object
  Dim start_time As Date, end_time As Date, cookie As String, result_cookie As String
 
  lastRow = Range("A" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Row
 
  start_time = Time
  Debug.Print "start_time:" & start_time
 
  For i = 2 To lastRow
    url = "https://www.google.co.in/search?q=" & Cells(i, 1) & "&rnd=" & WorksheetFunction.RandBetween(1, 10000)
    Set XMLHTTP = CreateObject("MSXML2.serverXMLHTTP")
    XMLHTTP.Open "GET", url, False
    XMLHTTP.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "text/xml"
    XMLHTTP.setRequestHeader "User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:25.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/25.0"
    XMLHTTP.send
    Set html = CreateObject("htmlfile")
    html.body.innerHTML = XMLHTTP.ResponseText
    Set objResultDiv = html.getelementbyid("rso")
    Set objH3 = objResultDiv.getelementsbytagname("h3")
    For Each link In objH3
      If link.className = "r" Then
        Cells(i, 2) = link.innerText
        Cells(i, 3) = link.getelementsbytagname("a")(0).href
        DoEvents
      End If
    Next link
  Next i
 
  end_time = Time
  Debug.Print "end_time:" & end_time
  Debug.Print "done" & "Time taken : " & DateDiff("n", start_time, end_time) & " :minutes"
  MsgBox "done" & "Time taken : " & DateDiff("n", start_time, end_time)
End Sub

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