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Becca94
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1 year ago
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Get Data not showing from Web source

Hello,    I'm very new to Power BI and trying to follow along the lesson plan on MS learning plan but I keep runing into an issue when I try to load data from a Web https://www.fool.com/research/be...
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    Anonymous
    1 year ago

    Hi Becca94 ,

    Agree with lbendlin,
    It appears to be a change in the architecture of this site. The data tables in the page are rendered in JS and embedded in iframe, you can see the html code of the page embedded in the iframe on the page:


    But Power Query's Web.BrowserContents (which is the same as web connector you are using in Power BI now) can't get to this data in this type. 

    So that tutorial you are learning from should be outdated, if you just need to learn how to get data from the web, replace it with a viable site. If you definitely need to get data from that site, maybe you can try to use a python crawler, or try to get its corresponding API that doesn't require a token (but that's difficult).

    Best Regards,
    Dino Tao
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