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Web scraping via Power Automate Cloud Flow
Power Automate
Sep 12, 2022 10:23 AM

Web scraping via Power Automate Cloud Flow

by HubSite 365 about Damien Bird

Power Platform Cloud Solutions Architect @ Microsoft | Microsoft BizApps MVP 2023 | Power Platform | SharePoint | Teams

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Looking to scrape data from a website using Power Automate? In this demo I build the flow step by step, showing you how we can retrieve an html table from a website and convert it to XML and JSON.

Looking to scrape data from a website using Power Automate? In this demo I build the flow step by step, showing you how we can retrieve an html table from a website and convert it to XML and JSON. I then extend the solution to show you how easily it is to pass that array to Power Apps, save as a collection and display in a Gallery.

In this video

  • Using HTTP Action in Power Automate
  • IndexOf to get Table Tag Position
  • Retrieving the HTML Table
  • Converting HTML to XML and JSON
  • Reporposing an array using Select
  • Responding to Power Apps with an Array
  • Connecting Flow to Power Apps
  • Displaying Flow Array in Power Apps
  • Outtro