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Anonymous
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Youtube Scrapping

Hi,

 

I want to scrape web results from youtube. It is a list of one random channel videos. However, when trying to do get data>web>insert link>table using examples, I have to first go through cookie settings. which I am unable coz of no interaction with website from pbi window.

 

here is the screenshot:

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Any help appreciated!

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v-jingzhang
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Hi @Anonymous 

 

Have you solved this problem? Do you find any method to go through the cookie settings?

 

Regards,
Community Support Team _ Jing

v-jingzhang
Community Support
Community Support

Hi @Anonymous 

 

I cannot reproduce this. I used https://www.youtube.com/c/GuyinaCube/videos to test this. When I connected to this URL, in the Navigator window, the video information displayed well in the suggested table. And when I used Add Table Using Examples feature, it also worked as expected. 

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Is this the page you want to get data from? Maybe you can try launching IE and Edge browsers on the same computer, visiting the same youtube channel to go through the cookie settings in web browsers first. Then in Power BI Desktop, connect to the same Channel URL to get the data. Power BI Desktop seems to use Internet Explorer 11 as the web browser when doing the connections.

 

Regards,
Community Support Team _ Jing
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