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jmillsjmills
Helper III
3 years ago

Another Web Scraping Query

I'm looking at pulling in data from this website: https://www.betfred.com/sports/event/22986947.2   And it looks as though the embedded call to the data is via this link, which (as per the screens...
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v-yueyunzh-msft
Community Support
3 years ago

Hi , jmillsjmills 

According to your description, you want your Http request to return a string in JSON format. Right?

First , you can put your request and request parameters into the "Postman" tool for debugging and see if it returns JSON format.
Second, you can try adding in the "Headers"

Accept=application/json 

 

For how to add "Headers" in Web.Contents , you can refer to :

Web.Contents - PowerQuery M | Microsoft Learn

 

 

Thank you for your time and sharing, and thank you for your support and understanding of PowerBI! 

 

Best Regards,

Aniya Zhang

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