Using VBA after Internet Exploer goes away, how to receive web page text

Question

After IE goes away I still need using VBA to be able to request a web page and receive the retuned contents.
Here is a test call i put together for this forum:
The main thing is to be able to use some browser after IE goes away and to be able to receive the output from the website.
Thanks ahead of time for any help.

• Mike -

Sub testcall()
Dim http As Object
Dim JSON As Object
Dim IE As Object
Dim IE_URL As String

Set IE = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
With IE
    .Visible = True
    IE_URL = "http://www.vbaexpress.com/"
    .Navigate IE_URL, 14, "_self", Null ', header2
    Do Until .readyState = 4: Application.Wait (Now + TimeValue("0:00:01")): Loop
    Debug.Print .document.body.innerText
  '  Set oJson = ParseJSONx(.document.body.innerText)
End With

End Sub

Answer 1

Check an alternative:

Dim x
Set x = CreateObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP")

x.Open "GET", "http://. . . .", False
x.Send

Dim result As String
result = x.responseText

Answer 2

This gonna work;

Set IE = WScript.CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application", "IE_")

IE.Navigate "
IE.Visible = True

'Wait til DOM is ready
Do Until IE.ReadyState = 4 : Loop

If IsObject(IE.Document.GetElementById("nav-tags")) Then
    IE.Document.GetElementById("nav-tags").Click()
End If

Set IE = Nothing