rest library for Excel

Eliminating repetitive coding of Excel web service integration

I find myself writing more and more web service to Excel integrations. Here are just a few examples of webservice-Excel integrations from the excel ramblings site. I thought it was about time to generalize this in the form of a new class cRest, and a library of known integrations.

As usual, jSon – Excel conversion and Excel data abstraction are used to make the whole thing straightforward. Here’s an example of populating a worksheet named “tweets” from a supplied query using this new library and class.

Public Sub testTwitter()
   
    generalTestQuery "tweets", "twitter", _
        InputBox(prompt:="Enter your twitter search query", _
             Title:="twitter API query:results to the tweets worksheet")
   
End Sub

 

And another using a datatable to generate a set of queries to Yahoo GeoCoding and fill in the table from the responses

Public Sub testYahooGeocode()
           generalTestDataSetQuery "geocoding", "yahoo geocode", "input address"
End Sub

 

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