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oanam
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5 years ago
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Currency code not found on xe.com data source

Hi,   I have an xe.com connection ( https://www.xe.com/currencytables/?from=GBP ) established a few months ago and I already built some measures on it using the rate of the currency exchange. All o...
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    Anonymous
    5 years ago

    HI oanam,

    In fact, the web connector not suitable to directly get data from the web page. The current web page effects and its data table are formatted based on the front/backend script and functions. (Power bi only get the HTML elements instead of getting data tables)

    For this scenario, I'd like to suggest you contact the website support for the backend REST API that used to get data from the data source. Then you can use a web connector to get data from these APIs.

    Regards,

    Xiaoxin Sheng

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Anonymous
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5 years ago

HI oanam,

In fact, the web connector not suitable to directly get data from the web page. The current web page effects and its data table are formatted based on the front/backend script and functions. (Power bi only get the HTML elements instead of getting data tables)

For this scenario, I'd like to suggest you contact the website support for the backend REST API that used to get data from the data source. Then you can use a web connector to get data from these APIs.

Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng