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HDBI
3 years agoRegular Visitor
Web scraping non-tabular data not working
Hi, I'm trying to pull country exposure data from morningstar.com (available to the public) and have researched and tried numerous blogs but cannot get this to work. 1. If you look at image 1 be...
amitchandak
3 years agoSuper User
HDBI , check if connect by example can help
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/connect-data/desktop-connect-to-web-by-example
- HDBI3 years agoRegular Visitor
Hi - thank you for your response. I have tried that approach and nothing really shows up in the webpage screen (see yellow scriggly line below) and even when I search for certain keywords, etc in "Column 1", I keep getting the "No CSS selector was found for the sample values you provided in the following column(s): Column 1" error. I've tried every reference to "Country" that I could find in the dropdown....
Any suggestions or do you know another way to do what I'm looking to do?
Thanks,
Dan
- CDPM3 years agoRegular Visitor
HDBI any ideas based off of same day reply from amitchandak; I am stuck in similar situation. Thanks!