Expand HTML Links from Excel Table in Query Editor

[EnochS]

Hello,

Does anyone know how to expand the HTML links inside of table? I have an excel table that I created with many links. I have loaded this file into Power BI Desktop in Query Editor and have been trying to "Expand" the html links to display the data found in those links (which are more tables). I thought this might expedite the process instead of creating a new table for each link.. Is there an efficient way to do this? Maybe I need to export this into a web page as an html file? If the way I'm trying doesnt work, is there any other method of doing this more efficiently if i have multiple data sources?

Thanks for any help.

File Link:
HTML List Example.XLSX

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

@EnochS,

There is no data when I open your HTML link. However, you can perform the following steps to get data from all the links in Query Editor.

1. Split the Project Bidding column to get the number. This step generates the following code, you can copy it to the Advanced Editor of your query.

#"Split Column by Delimiter" = Table.SplitColumn(#"Changed Type", "Projects Bidding", Splitter.SplitTextByEachDelimiter({"/"}, QuoteStyle.Csv, true), {"Projects Bidding.1", "Projects Bidding.2"}),
    #"Changed Type1" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Split Column by Delimiter",{{"Projects Bidding.1", type text}, {"Projects Bidding.2", type text}}),
    #"Split Column by Delimiter1" = Table.SplitColumn(#"Changed Type1", "Projects Bidding.1", Splitter.SplitTextByEachDelimiter({"/"}, QuoteStyle.Csv, true), {"Projects Bidding.1.1", "Projects Bidding.1.2"}),

2. Add a new blank query and paste the following code in the Advanced Editor of the blank query. And rename the query to fnGetByid.

let
fnGetByid = (urlid as text) =>
let
    Source = Web.Page(Web.Contents(Text.Replace("http://www.bxwa.com/bxwa_toc/private/{id}/toc.html","{id}", urlid))),
    Data0 = Source{0}[Data]
in
    Data0
in
fnGetByid

3. Add a custom column in the Data table which is imported from the Excel file, then expand the custom column.

=fnGetByid([Projects Bidding.1.2])

Reference:
https://kzhendev.wordpress.com/2014/04/14/scraping-the-web-with-power-query/

Regards,
Lydia