Web Scraping - CSS Selectors and Attributes

[jmillsjmills]

Hello,

I am hoping one of you kind forum folk can help me. I can't say I know too much about coding, but I feel like I am close! Essentially, I would like "Column1" to return the numeric value of the "data-event-id" attribute - so the first row should be 2710602.

At the moment my code says {"Column1", ".event", each[Attributes][href]} for populating that first column... But when I switch it to {"Column1", ".event", each[Attributes][data-event-id]} it returns an error that it cannot even define.

Am deliberately using the new Power BI desktop feature which can handle non-HTML tables and convert them. I know the rest of the script works: in other columns, I can already pull back text strings like 12.00PM, Jahn Regensburg and Darmstadt 98 in the above code with the respective CSS selectors: .time, .team1 and .team2.

As I say, just need to find a means of pulling back the ID string held within the "data-event-id" attribute, but I can't quite get there. Was also trying to use this tutorial (hence originally having [href] in the above).

[V-lianl-msft]

Hi @jmillsjmills ,

You can also refer to this:https://ssbipolar.com/2018/10/27/web-scraping-with-html-table-in-power-query/ 

Best Regards,
Liang
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[jmillsjmills]

Thank you!

[mwegener · Accepted solution]

Hi @jmillsjmills ,

use this.

{"Column1", ".event", each [Attributes][#"data-event-id"]}

[jmillsjmills]

That is fantastic - thank you so much!