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Web Page source with Javascript
Thanks for answering, Greg_Deckler!
This file is part of one of my PowerBI projects, and i'd like to automate the process of extraction and connection to this source... get rid of the dailly manually action. Do you imagine any other solution to this?
Thank you again.
Anonymous - To the best of my knowledge, Power Query cannot press a button on a web page. I would recommend changing your web page to act like a REST API where you could do something like this:
http://<domain>/<page>/?button=pressed
You could parse the query string and if this appears you kick off the same routine as if someone manually pressed the button. Maybe this could return JSON or ODATA or something that would have in the information the random Excel file name that was generated and its path. Then Power Query could parse this out and then create a connection to the file.
I'm still not clear on generating random Excel files but people do things.