Excel add-in for accessing PDH.STAT SDMX API.
This add-in creates a "live" connection between your Excel Workbook and the Pacific Data Hub's .Stat API.
It provides a list of available dataflows (datasets), and choosing one of these dataflows returns all of the corresponding data in a new sheet.
Thanks to Mark from "Excel Off the Grid" for his tutorial on "Dynamic Drop-down Menus", and thanks to the Bank of Italy for their "getTimeSeries" function.
Excel add-in instructions adapted from here
Download sdmxpdh.xlam from this repository, put it somewhere you'll remember
Open a new Excel Workbook
Go File > Options > Add-Ins
In the Manage box, click Excel Add-ins > Go
In the Add-ins box which appears, click Browse
Navigate to where you saved sdmxpdh.xlam, select it and hit Open
Check that the add-in's box is "ticked" in the Add-ins dialog box
Click OK
You should now see PDH .Stat in Excel's ribbon menu (among File, Home, Data, View etc.)
Click PDH .Stat in the ribbon menu
You will see a drop-down menu called Dataflow (this has all available dataflows fetched from PDH .Stat)
Choose one of the dataflows to get its data (a blank window will pop-up temporarily, don't close it (this is the program fetching data))
The data will be returned in a new Sheet with the name of the selected dataflow
The source files for the add-in are found in the directory main. The file add_in.bas fetches dataflows and updates the drop-down menu whenever the Workbook is opened. The file SDMX.bas is a basic version of the Bank of Italy's getTimeSeries function. It is activated when you click on a drop-down menu item, sending a request to the PDH .Stat API for that dataflow's data.
Rebuilding the add-in with new changes is as easy as File > Save as > then choose Excel Add-in for Save as type.