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jmillsjmills
3 years agoHelper III
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...
jmillsjmills
3 years agoHelper III
Your above code is what I've already tried - and it results in the same error:
DataSource.Error: The downloaded data is HTML, which isn't the expected type. The URL may be wrong or you might not have provided the right credentials to the server.
Is there no way you'd be able to please test this specific URL I am trying to use on your side? Thanks so much again
v-yueyunzh-msft
3 years agoCommunity Support
Hi , jmillsjmills
Oh... it is strange , in my side , for this url :
https://www.bing.com/videos/vdasync?w=298&mid=A5DDD429C801C67FCF7CA5DDD429C801C67FCF7C
it returns the json type:
Is this also an error on your side?
Best Regards,
Aniya Zhang
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