Power Automate Desktop has been around now for several months. Which option do you choose? That’s what I’ll take you through The second option is to use Power Automate Desktop. Again, that sounds like it could be difficult, but it doesn’t have to beĭesktop Flows (previously called UI Flows) can be used in Power Automate Cloud to scrape data from web pages. With data presented on the Web, the only option is to scrape the data yourself. However, there is a mass of data out there on plain old web pages where connectors cannot be used. Hiredgun.tech: Custom Connectors Requiring an API key.Hiredgun.tech: Building a Basic Custom Connector.Hiredgun.tech: Custom Connectors – Some General Info.Checkout my earlier posts for details on how to do this

They are generally easy to use and serve up the data very quicklyĮven if ready-made Connectors aren’t available, building a custom Connector to a freely available web service is a fall-back option and isn’t as complex as it sounds. Connectors are the ‘official’ APIs between the Power Platform and other systems. Connectors are the best way to get your hands on the data you need.

Web scraping with power automate