🛑Detect Console Error and Send Email Notification.

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Hi everyone,

I'm automating a web page using Power Automate Desktop. After clicking the Data Display button, the data doesn't load as expected. When I open the browser console (F12), I see a red cross ❌ indicating a JavaScript error (screenshot attached).

I would like to automate the detection of this error — specifically, when this red cross appears in the console — and send an email notification.

Is there a way in Power Automate Desktop to:

Detect this kind of browser console error?
Trigger an email when this error appears?

Any advice or alternative methods (such as detecting that no data is displayed, or reading from the console logs if possible) would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

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UshaJyothiKasibhotla 225 Moderator on at

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Hi @CU12050101-0

Use "Wait for web element", "Get details of web element", or "If web element exists" actions to check if:

the element with cross mark exist

if exist then use send email action.

If you want to send the email notification when there is no data then

Use extract data from web page

if the output is empty then send email.

Please let me know if you face any challenge.

Hope this helps,

Usha Jyothi,

https://linkedin.com/in/usha-jyothi-kasibhotla-7a381446

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CU12050101-0 116 on at

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Thanks for the suggestion! @UshaJyothiKasibhotla

I actually tried using "Get details of web element" and "If web element exists", but when I attempted to add the UI element, it wouldn't let me select anything inside the browser console (F12). It could detect and highlight elements on the main web page just fine, but not anything inside the console tab, including the red ❌ error indicator.

It seems like Power Automate Desktop can't interact with the browser's developer tools UI.

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Srini007 3,463 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi @CU12050101-0,

Maybe you try other way around, so select a element if the data is available, maybe the first row of the Data, so if that is not available then it will throw the exception. you make that to handle

Hope this may help you

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Regards,

Srini

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eetuRobo 4,495 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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It seems like Power Automate Desktop can't interact with the browser's developer tools UI.

That's because the Developer tools UI is not part of the web site but part of the browsers UI. So if you want the flow to interact with the console you need to use UI Automation -actions

Use "Extract data from window" -action and capture the console section

Then you can have everything inside the console in DataFromWindow -variable and build logic around if certain error appears in it.

Or you can just have "If window contains" -condition action that checks if that console element contains the error text

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