VBA scrape URL with nested DIV's

Question

I've been following this This Tutorial to scrape data from a URL as it matches my need pretty closely (3 div's deep). Unfortunately where StackOverflow no longer supports IE I can't test the Tutorial's code to see if it works as is. In my case I cannot use the chrome plugin and I have to authenticate to the site first before navigating to the URL. I also tried the solutions on question 15191847 - specifically gembird's solution - it gave me the same error.

When I run the below I get a "Run-time error '91'. I printed the ie.document to a text file and verified that the div id's I'm searching on are correct and that they're being captured. The error tosses on Set Questions = QuestionList.Children. Any thoughts on why it may be showing me the error?

Dim ie As InternetExplorer
Dim html As HTMLDocument
Dim QuestionList As IHTMLElement, QuestionField As IHTMLElement
Dim Questions As IHTMLElementCollection, QuestionFieldLinks As IHTMLElementCollection, QuestionFields As IHTMLElementCollection
Dim Question As IHTMLElement

Dim RowNumber As Long
Dim votes As String, url As String, views As String, QuestionId As String

url = "<<my url>>"

'open Internet Explorer in memory, and go to website
Set ie = New InternetExplorer
ie.Visible = True
ie.navigate url


'Wait until IE is done loading page
Do While ie.READYSTATE <> READYSTATE_COMPLETE
  Application.StatusBar = "Trying to go to " & url
  DoEvents
Loop

Cells.Clear
'show text of HTML document returned
Set html = ie.Document

'close down IE and reset status bar
Set ie = Nothing
Application.StatusBar = ""

'put heading across the top of row 3
Range("A3").Value = "Field"
Range("B3").Value = "Values"

Set QuestionList = html.getElementByID("fieldgroup ")    
Set Questions = QuestionList.Children

RowNumber = 4

For Each Question In Questions
  If Question.className = "fieldrow _text-field" Then
    'get a list of all of the parts of this question, and loop over them
    Set QuestionFields = Question.all
    
    For Each QuestionField In QuestionFields
      'if this is the question's votes, store it (get rid of any surrounding text)
      If QuestionField.className = "fieldlabel" Then
        Cells(RowNumber, 1).Value = Trim(QuestionField.innerText)
      End If

      'likewise for views (getting rid of any text)
      If QuestionField.className = "fieldvalue" Then
        Cells(RowNumber, 2).Value = Trim(QuestionField.innerText)
      End If
    Next QuestionField
    'go on to next row of worksheet
    RowNumber = RowNumber + 1
    
  End If
Next
Set html = Nothing

The HTML output looks like this.

<div class="fieldgroup " style="" group-title="">
 
<div class="fieldrow _text-field">

<div class="fieldlabel">Reporting</div>
<div class="fieldvalue">Yes</div>
 </div>
    
<div class="fieldrow _text-field">
<div class="fieldlabel">Annotate ''Yes''</div>
<div class="fieldvalue">Yes</div>
 </div>
...

Answer 1

You are mixing up id and class which are different things, see for example What's the difference between an id and a class?.
Your elements have class-attributes, not IDs. To search for elements with specific class attributes, use the function getElementsByClassName. Note that this is a "plural" function, it will return all elements having that specific class attribute. Even if it finds only one element, it returns a data structure that can hold any number of elements and you need to use an index to access one of the elements. As far as I remember, in VBA that's an 0-based array.

If you are sure that always one element is found, either use

Set QuestionList = html.getElementsByClassName("fieldgroup ")(0)
Set Questions = QuestionList.Children

or (but in this case you need a different definition for QuestionList):

Set QuestionList = html.getElementsByClassName("fieldgroup ")
Set Questions = QuestionList(0).Children

I omitted error checking, so if the HTML doesn't contain any elements with that class name, you will still get a runtime error. To write robust code, you should add that check.