Dear Computer Hope Forum,
Please help.
I am trying to download some information from one of my favorite sites, BoardGameGeek.com.
I can browse the "Board Game Geek" Database and sort it by "number of votes" from most votes to least votes:
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/browse/...s&sortdir=descI can create a web query in Excel to pull the main table with the information.
But the table spans a lot of pages.
What I want to do is pull the main table from page 1, 2, 3, etc... into a single spreadsheet in MS Excel.
Preferably I would like to do this keeping the HTML intact, because I need to do a second step to extract the "game ID" from each of the game name links to the specific game pages.
Can anyone help? Please?
Besides pulling 2+ pages into 1 sheet, I need to be able to specify a range. I can use the browse feature of the web to figure out how many pages deep I need go in order to get down to 1-2 votes, but I don't know how to pull the pages into 1 or specify a range.
Thanks!
Lee
P.S. All of this is so I can use another program BGG 2 NanDeck to download more information than is available via the browse feature on Board Game Geek. Once I have the single spreadsheet above with all the games that have at least 1 or 2 "votes". I can extract out a list of game ids and feed that into BGG2NanDeck. That will let me pull detailed information for each game. But I need to have a list of games that have votes... BGG 2 NanDeck "crashes" if a game has no votes, so I can't just request every sequential game ID number from BGG 2 NanDeck.
