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Posted on by saimrpp 37

Dear Community,

 

I have an excel file that has links to websites (in Col 'H'), which I want 'Power Automate' to loop and open each link and extract a specific element value. However, none of the existing Excel functions has a way to do this. The idea is to:

1. PA to pick H2 Value and open that link.
2. Pick a specific elements / values & paste into respective F & G cells.
3. Increment to next value in H and repeat #2
4. Repeat #3 until the last row

 

I was trying to explore "Excel Online (Business)" Connector, but alas, I only have Microsoft 365 Family subscription. Is there any other way to do this?

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Any help is appreciated !

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    Agnius Bartninkas Profile Picture
    Agnius Bartninkas Most Valuable Professional on at

    You should use the Read from Excel worksheet action to read all the data from your sheet. This will result in a data table. You can then use a For each loop to iterate through the table, having each row in a variable called %CurrentItem%. You could then access the link in column H as %CurrentItem[7]% (because H is the 8th column, but indexes are 0-based in PAD) and use that in your flow.

     

    See this tutorial for example. It is quite primitive and simplified, but the idea of reading data from Excel and using a loop to iterate through it is demonstrated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WezrCQlpBY&ab_channel=AndersJensen

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    saimrpp 37 on at

    @Agnius : THANKS A TON !!! 

    You are right, that video was bit 'simpler' but gives a fair view of the 'possibilities'. Exactly what I needed :-))

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