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Anonymous
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7 years ago
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New Web Scraping experience - December 2018 Update

Hi, 

I saw a YT video showing the powerful tool: New web scraping experience that was released in the May 2018 update. 

It enabled the user to scrape data from the web, but in a very clever way where PowerBI Desktop actually showed the website whilst importing the data, and it was possible to highlight the words to mine from the website. See screenshot attached. 

The screenshots are from the following YT video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qztZ1hLo_Gw (How to get data from a web page - by Nathan Patrick Taylor) 

I just updated my Power BI to December version and the tool doesnt seem to be availbale anymore. Is there any replacement that is as powerful (to "learn" what words I want to mine from the website)?

Many thanks for your help 

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  • Greg_Deckler's avatar
    Greg_Deckler
    7 years ago

    It is no longer a Preview feature. Add a Web data source and use the "Add table using examples" down in the lower left. See image:

     

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  • Greg_Deckler's avatar
    Greg_Deckler
    Community Champion
    7 years ago

    It is no longer a Preview feature. Add a Web data source and use the "Add table using examples" down in the lower left. See image:

     

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Not applicable
      7 years ago

      Many thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for. 

      Cheers!

      • leed's avatar
        leed
        Advocate II
        7 years ago

        Hi Anonymous  Greg_Deckler 

        Do you have an issue with the refresh from Power BI Service when using Web from example? It seems not working on my side.

         

        Thank you,