DataSource.Error: The downloaded data is HTML, which isn't the expected type. The URL may be wrong

[mridulmathur]

hi all, I am trying to import data from MCX site in excel

but getting below error:

DataSource.Error: The downloaded data is HTML, which isn't the expected type. The URL may be wrong or you might not have provided the right credentials to the server.

below is the code, its a post call with Json Payload. i have tried both Json.fromValue and text.tobinary but got similar result:

let
Source = Json.Document(Web.Contents("https://www.mcxindia.com/market-data/option-chain", [Content=Json.FromValue([Commodity="CRUDEOIL", Expiry="17OCT2022"]),
Headers=[Cookie="_ga=GA1.2.1341481004.1662073518; device-referrer=; device-source=https://www.mcxindia.com/; ASP.NET_SessionId=hs0aoriiadw3u41bke0pyz4f; _gid=GA1.2.1265856523.1663745533",
#"Content-Type" = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", #"Accept" = "application/json"]]),TextEncoding.Unicode)
in
Source

[Anonymous]

Hi  @mridulmathur , 

I found some similar post, hope they could help you.

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And try .. otherwise is the error-handler in Power Query. Also check out this post: Handling Data Source Errors In Power Query – Chris Webb's BI Blog

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Stephen Tao

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