Use Excel VBA to fill out and submit a Google Docs form

Question

I am trying to do something like this post , but using Excel VBA. I would like to send a response in the form of google documents every time a button is clicked on an Excel add-in. Addin is an XLA file and is written in VBA.

I want to be able to collect functions that users use. If anyone has a better solution, I'm open.

--- Edit ---

This is the form I'm trying to write (code excerpt for one of the fields.)

<div class="errorbox-good">
    <div class="ss-item ss-item-required ss-text">
        <div class="ss-form-entry">
            <label for="entry_0" class="ss-q-title">
                UserName
                <span class="ss-required-asterisk">*</span>
            </label>
            <label for="entry_0" class="ss-q-help"></label>
            <input type="text" 
                   id="entry_0" 
                   class="ss-q-short" 
                   value="" 
                   name="entry.0.single">
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

- EDIT 2-- This is what I have tried so far, but it still does not work. I get an error in the line ".UserName.Value = Environ (" username ")" I suspect that this is because it does not find the .username element.

Private Sub GoogleForm()
    Dim ie As Object
    Set ie = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
    On Error GoTo errHandler
    With ie
        .navigate "http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&cfg=true&formkey=dHFTMzkwR2RpY2tzSUNnbVhIcDN3WWc6MA"
        Do While .busy: DoEvents:  Loop
            Do While .ReadyState <> 4: DoEvents: Loop
                With .document.Forms(1)
                     'Username
                    .UserName.Value = Environ("username")
                     'Key
                    .Key.Value = "00qwe-12ckd"
                    .submit
                End With
                Do While Not CBool(InStrB(1, .document.URL, _
                    "cp_search_response-e.asp"))
                    DoEvents
                Loop
                Do While .busy: DoEvents: Loop
                Do While .ReadyState <> 4: DoEvents: Loop
                MsgBox .document.all.tags("table").Item(11).Rows(1).Cells(7).innerText
    End With
Exit Sub
errHandler:
    ie.Quit: Set ie = Nothing
End Sub

Answer 1

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Sub FillOutGoogleForm()
    Application.ScreenUpdating = False
    Dim IE As Object
    Dim uname       As String
    Dim ukey        As String

    uname = Environ("username")
    ukey = "00000-123kd-34kdkf-slkf"

    Set IE = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
    IE.Visible = True

    While IE.busy
        DoEvents
    Wend

    IE.navigate "http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&pli=1&formkey=dHFTMzkwR2RpY2tzSUNnbVhIcDN3WWc6MA"

    While IE.busy
        DoEvents
    Wend

    SendKeys uname
    While IE.busy
        DoEvents
    Wend
    SendKeys "{TAB}", True
    SendKeys ukey
    While IE.busy
        DoEvents
    Wend
    SendKeys "{TAB}", True
    SendKeys "{ENTER}", True
    SendKeys "%{F4}"
    Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub

Answer 2

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• , POST Google. Firebug , . , - formkey, , field1, field2 ..

• MSXML2 ( , ).

  http = CreateObject ( "MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP" )

  myURL = " http://www.somedomain.com"

  http.Open "POST", myURL, False

  http.setRequestHeader "User-Agent", "Mozilla/4.0 (; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)"

  http.send("") ''// , SEND .. ,

  http.send( "formkey = Fd0SHgwQ3Yw & 1 = & 2 = " )

  MsgBox http.responseText

Answer 3

Google Apps Script , Google Apps ( ). : a) VBA b) , , - 8 , .

Answer 4

Mark Nold , , WinHTTP ServerXMLHTTP, ..

Content-Type. , "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" ( : http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#h-17.13.4)

Finally, you must send the data using the Send () call.

form_data = "entry.0.single=some_username&entry.1.single=some_key&pageNumber=0&backupCache=&submit=Submit"
http.SetRequestHeader "Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
http.Send form_data

Answer 5

go to form editor

From the answers, select the pre-filled URL

fill in field names such as a1 a2 a3 a4 for answers to see them later

then change in url from viewform to formResponse, like:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/123-ycyAMD4/viewform?entry.1237336855=a1..

to

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/123-ycyAMD4/formResponse?entry.1237336855=a1...

then http will get this url somehow:

Sub sendresult()
dim a1,a2,a3
a1="ans1"    
a2="ans2"
a3="ans3"


dim myURL
myURL= "https://docs.google.com/forms/d/123-ycyAMD4/formResponse?" & _ 
 "entry.1237336855=" & a1 & _ 
"&entry.2099352330=" & a2 & _ 
"&entry.962062701=" & a3

dim http
Set http= CreateObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP")
http.Open "GET", myURL, False
http.setRequestHeader "User-Agent", "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)"
http.send  
MsgBox http.responseText

end sub

full function i used:

'http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2360153/use-excel-vba-to-fill-out-and-submit-google-docs-form/28079922#28079922

Dim savedname

Sub sendresult()


Dim ScriptEngine
Set ScriptEngine = CreateObject("MSScriptControl.ScriptControl")
ScriptEngine.Language = "JScript"
ScriptEngine.AddCode "function encode(str) {return encodeURIComponent(str);}"

Dim name, points, times, t1, t2, t3, t4

times = Sheet5.Range("C13").Value

If times = "0" Or times = "" Then
MsgBox "no data"
Exit Sub
End If

If savedname = Empty Then savedname = InputBox("enter your name")

name = ScriptEngine.Run("encode", savedname)
points = Sheet5.Range("C12").Value
t1 = Sheet5.Range("C7").Value
t2 = Sheet5.Range("C8").Value
t3 = Sheet5.Range("C9").Value
t4 = Sheet5.Range("C10").Value


Dim myURL
myURL = "https://docs.google.com/forms/d/123-ycyAMD4/formResponse?" & _
 "entry.1237336855=" & name & _
"&entry.2099352330=" & points & _
"&entry.962062701=" & times & _
"&entry.1420067848=" & t1 & _
"&entry.6696464=" & t2 & _
"&entry.1896090524=" & t3 & _
"&entry.1172632640=" & t4


Dim http
Set http = CreateObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP")
http.Open "GET", myURL, False
http.setRequestHeader "User-Agent", "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)"
http.send
Dim resp

If UBound(Split(http.responseText, "<div class=""ss-resp-message"">")) > 0 Then
 resp = Split(Split(http.responseText, "<div class=""ss-resp-message"">")(1), "</div>")(0)
Else
 resp = "sent(with unexpected server response)"
End If
If resp = "Your response has been recorded." Then resp = "input received"
MsgBox resp


End Sub