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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...
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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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Anonymous
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7 years ago

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

Cheers!

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leed
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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,

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    7 years ago

    I actually havent looked into that, I needed to scrape data for a single-use application. It would be interesting to test it. I am sorry I cannot be of more help. Good luck!

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    Anonymous
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    6 years ago

    I am having an issue while refreshing yahoo finance data through Power BI service. The refresh is not working for me. Do you have any inputs?

     

    Thanks

    Varun Devaraj