Forum Discussion

Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
Not applicable
5 years ago

No content with Web.Contents vs. Web.BrowserContents

Dear all, I have an - at least for me - strange behaviour here. A simplified example: I want to scrape some Reviews & Ratings values from a Web-Shop   It works perfectly fine in PBI Desktop a...
Need Help
v-yingjl's avatar
v-yingjl
Community Support
5 years ago

Hi Anonymous ,

Based on my test, if you want to get the HTML table from web, you need to use Web.BroswerContents() which returns html, Web.Contents() will return a binary result.

If you nest Html.table() outside Web.Contents(), you will always get an empty table whatever your web address.

When you use the web connector to extract data, you would find that it also use Web.BroswerContents() instead of Web.Contents().

 

In addition, about Dynamic data source using Web.contents, you can refer: Dynamic Web.Contents() and Power BI Refresh Errors 

 

Best Regards,
Community Support Team _ Yingjie Li
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

vincent_nox's avatar
vincent_nox
Advocate I
4 years ago

Then, what if I have a pair of Web.BroswerContents() sourced tables? 

How can I have them properly refreshed, within the Service (without a gateway)? 

 

Sorry for the question, I'm new here (and I'm not sure to understand the whole flow) 🙂