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How to run python in power query
I have a python file in pycharm that takes a csv of CIKs (the EDGAR ticker symbol identifier) and scrapes the number of subsidiaries. This is the script in case you want to know....but my issue i...
Hey charleshale ,
if the BeautifulSoup package is not supported by the PowerBI Service, then there is a problem.
Maybe it's possible to create a Python App running in Azure or an Python function. Let's create this App or Function do the data extraction create JSON document, a csv, or a Parquet file then will be consumed by Power BI.
Hopefully, this provides an idea of how to tackle your challenge.Regards,
Tom
Hey charleshale ,
check this document: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/connect-data/desktop-python-scripts
Regards,
Tom
Thank you, TomMartens. It looks like then that PowerBI only supports pandas. Therefore the issue is that a beautifulsoup data harvest isnt supported. Does that sound right?
