Get notified when any change is made on website, basically using Power Automate as a web monitoring tool

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Need help in creating a flow to use power automate as a web monitoring tool

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abm abm 32,979 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi @vidhimittal_abc

Could you please explain bit more about change in the website? Is this a database update changes from the website user interface for any actions users do?

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vidhimittal_abc 10 on at

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I want to track any changes being made on a specific page of a specific website

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Hi @vidhimittal_abc

I still need bit more about the website. Have you got full control of those changes? Is this website you maintain or not? How the changes are pushed? If you could give an example that will be great.

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VictorIvanidze 13,079 on at

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Create a a scheduled flow that downloads the HTML source periodically. Compare current HTML text with the previous one.

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vidhimittal_abc 10 on at

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Hey, it is a public website, not maintained by me. The website owner regularly updates certain data points on their website. I just want to get notified when such a change is made

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Matthy79 4,182 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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Hello @vidhimittal_abc ,

but you already got the correct answer from @VictorIvanidze

You just have to download the html body, store it somewhere and make a scheduled flow that compares the current html response with the one before. If there was a change, do your alerting and save the new body, if no change happened, do nothing.

What is your exact question regarding this solution?

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Hi @vidhimittal_abc

Thanks for your reply. Looks like you want to scrape the data from a webpage.

Have a look on this solution please.

How to Extract Data from Web Pages in Microsoft Power Automate Desktop - MS Power Automate

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vidhimittal_abc 10 on at

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Can you guide me through the steps. I'm a newbie at automate.

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Hi @vidhimittal_abc

There are lots of article about Power Automate Desktop in this community. Also YouTube got lots of videos related to Power Automate Desktop.

Here is the video about how to scrape the data.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMYp7nz3HyA

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