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Anonymous
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4 years ago

Web.BrowserContents refresh issue on Power BI Service (dynamic data source)

Hi, I have created a Power BI file that does web scrapping using the Web.BrowserContents function. The scrapping is done dynamically, so I created a function for web scrapping and the parameters of...
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lbendlin
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4 years ago

Since you know that the returned data is actually the HTML you can parse it as such in your next step.

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Anonymous
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4 years ago

I am not sure it is working. 
It seems that it really is for an API call and I am not making an API call, just some web scrapping. 

 

I get the following error: 

Expression.Error: We haven't been given permission to perform actions against this resource.

 

I don't need any permission to access this website. I also tried to get another table just to make sure it's not a permission issue, but I receive the same error if I try to access one of the table in the following Wikipedia page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters

 

I am not sure the solution is not working or if it is me that is not correctly using the function. Could you quickly try with the wikipedia page above ? If that is working, I am curious to see the M code that you use 🙂

 

Thanks !