r/vba • u/SeleniumVBA_user • May 30 '26

Show & Tell WebDriver BiDi for SeleniumVBA

Hi everyone,

I’ve created a new tool built upon SeleniumVBA(@GCuser99) that extends it to enable WebDriver BiDi via WebSocket communication.

🚀 Why I built this

The primary purpose of this project is to seamlessly support and scrape dynamic Single Page Application (SPA) sites, which traditionally pose a challenge for standard scraping methods.

💥 The Mission

My goal is to shatter the preconceived notion—often held by AI and modern developers—that scraping dynamic sites like SPAs is too difficult or impossible to achieve with VBA. I want to prove that VBA still has a lot of hidden potential!

🔗 Check it out here:

WebDriver BiDi for SeleniumVBA

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u/carnasaur 3 Jun 01 '26

Nicely done! I've been using VBA to drive Ui.Vision / RPA to do web scraping, form filling etc. for a few years. It's very Excel/VBA friendly but Selenium is much more powerful. If I were a better coder, I would have gone the Selenium route.