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No content with Web.Contents vs. Web.BrowserContents
Hi,
It seems that the accepted solution doesn't really help to find a workaround.
I also need to download HTM table (so I use the Web.BrowserContents function) but I can not refresh it on Power BI Service.
Did you find a workaround to be able to use the web.Contents function with an HTML table ?
Anonymous - I'm also trying to figure out this issue. Usually replacing Web.BrowserContents with Web.Contents would work but it seems in some cases (maybe website design/formatting) it just results in no values.
I also suspect that the "answer" here was not marked as the solution by the OP.
Anonymous- did you find a workaround or cause for this? I'm guessing you didn't mark the accepted answer as the solution?
Dear KNP & Anonymous,
if I remember correctly the issue was that the respective HTML-Product-Detail-Page (PDP) was built "on the fly" by a JAVA function getting the data from a data-base... while Web.BrowserContent obviously got the already "produced" PDP, Web.Content somehow failed.
Thus the workaround was not to scrape the PDP, but instead the URL called by the JAVA function to get the JSON data from the master-data server and afterwards converting this JSON into a table. An even significantly faster and more reliable way 😊
However, if you find some news on this topic above I would be glad to see the solution here - thanks a lot!
Best
FloriGiChanging "Web.BrowserContents" to "Web.Contents" in the source was the solution for me. No need for a local gateway. Thank you very much.
