Forum Discussion

Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
Not applicable
7 years ago
Solved

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...
Need Help
  • 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:

     

leed's avatar
leed
Icon for Advocate II rankAdvocate 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,

Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
Not applicable
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!