July 26, 2023, 7:37 a.m. | david wyatt

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Web scraping has always been a Power Automate Desktop functionality, but did you know you can also use Power Automate Cloud?


Let me call out a few important caveats:


The Cloud approach doesn't work on all sites, it only works on static or php generated html files. Anything rendered on the client won't work, for that you need a headless browser or a full browser (that's where Power Automate Desktop comes in). Additionally if the content is very dynamic (i.e. …

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