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Mehay
Helper I
6 years ago
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Dynamic Date and element in Power BI URL

Hi everyone,    Plz help me on this.   1. I'm trying to format my URL in the way that it takes 2-3 days prior data I found out that this code (below) will work for today, but how do I change it ...
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  • camargos88's avatar
    camargos88
    6 years ago

    Mehay ,

     

    Yes, it's like a macro in Excel.

    It keeps all the steps and apply them when the refresh happens.

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    camargos88
    6 years ago

    Hi Mehay ,

     

    We get this error if the page load is slower than the Power Query request, to fix it, use this code:

     

    let
    Source = Web.BrowserContents("https://www.apple.com/covid19/mobility", [WaitFor = [Timeout = #duration(0,0,0,3)]]),
    Extract = Html.Table(
                            Source, 
                            {
                                {"Link", "#download-card > div.download-button-container > a", each [Attributes][href]}
                            },
                             [RowSelector="#download-card > div.download-button-container"]
                        ){0}[Link],
    GetData = Csv.Document(Web.Contents(Extract),[Delimiter=",",Encoding=65001, QuoteStyle=QuoteStyle.None])
in
    GetData

     

    I just added a timer to delay the load of the page in Power Query.

Mehay's avatar
Mehay
Helper I
6 years ago

Dear camargos88,

 

Appreciate for you help, first of all.

 

Yes, your function basically worked fine, i just copied all codes given by you.

The thing is if I dont change 28 in URL to 14, it would still stick to data untill 9 Jun.

So only when i changed it to 14, it gave me needed data untill 10 Jun.

 

I checked with old URL, and it's probably still saved within Apple database with the same old link but wont be avialable publically in the website. 

The website would provide only lateast data.

So I think that would be another problem with this formula.

 

Just my thought, is it possible to have codes with that stick strictly to d-2, so 2 days before, e.i. today 12 Jun, so to get 10 Jun), and then for that middle number in the URL it will count from 0-100, and therefore, the system will try to figure out wich number should match with 10 Jun data.

 

Thanks again.

Mehdi

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Anonymous
Not applicable
6 years ago

Hi Mehdi,

 

Struggling with the same code could you forward it to me please.