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MRosk95
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1 year ago

Access to Resource Forbidden - Web Contents

Hi there,   Until today, I have been accessing a public website through Power Query and pulling content down. All of a sudden I am getting an "Access to Resource is Forbidden" error. This is my ...
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lbendlin
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1 year ago

What you are doing is basically screen scraping. This is frowned upon. The "correct" way would be to use the data API that your data source should provide.  That's what Web.Contents is designed for - for APIs, not for webpage scraping.

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MRosk95
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1 year ago

Thanks lbendlin, no API is available and I don't believe the datasource provider is interested in providing one so kind of stuck here but thank you for your help.