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How to automate login to website, click links, fill in details and download file

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Posted on 27 Dec 2021 23:42:35 by

Hello

 

I am looking for advice on how to automate the following:

1. Login into a website using username and password

2. Click on links in that website in a specific order (the links are at the top of the page and also in the sidebar) to arrive at the download page

3. Fill in details and select checkboxes on that download page

4. Click the download button.

5. The file will be downloaded to my desktop and i would like to automate it to be renamed with today's date and time, and then uploaded to a folder on SharePoint.

 

Can this whole process be automated? If yes, would it be possible to do with only the web version of Power Automate? I'm new to Power Automate, so i'm looking for a relatively simple solution that would not require advanced programming...

 

Any advice on the best possible approach would be much appreciated!

  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
    on 13 Jul 2023 at 09:00:29
    Re: How to automate login to website, click links, fill in details and download file

    Many thanks for the prompt and useful reply!

  • mohashinBhyian Profile Picture
    90 on 13 Jul 2023 at 08:47:02
    Re: How to automate login to website, click links, fill in details and download file

    Hey, Web scrapping or Web automation is not possible in Cloud flow. You need Power Automate Desktop which is free. You can automate power automate desktop flow with power automate cloud flow. But you need to pay Microsoft for this 🙂 

  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
    on 13 Jul 2023 at 08:44:46
    Re: How to automate login to website, click links, fill in details and download file

    Hi, did you succeed in this task? I'm trying to do the same thing now, very confused...... Thanks!

  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
    on 13 Jul 2023 at 08:43:29
    Re: How to automate login to website, click links, fill in details and download file

    Hi, 

     

    Did you succeed in this? I'm trying to do the same using cloud flow. Thanks!

  • mohashinBhyian Profile Picture
    90 on 27 Feb 2023 at 14:14:09
    Re: How to automate login to website, click links, fill in details and download file

    Same here. I don't have desktop power automate, I am trying to do with power automate web. 

  • jamesbruty Profile Picture
    4 on 19 Jan 2023 at 09:36:40
    Re: How to automate login to website, click links, fill in details and download file

    Hi,

     

    Did you ever get a solution to this? I'm trying to do the same thing with a cloud flow (as I haven't got PA desktop)..

     

    Thanks!

  • DhruvKD Profile Picture
    2 on 30 Mar 2022 at 11:37:35
    Re: How to automate login to website, click links, fill in details and download file

    I have a follow up question on the original one, can we crate browser automate using cloud flow?

    - I would like to make the flow - desktop independent and hence looking for options on browser automation which can be done through cloud flow / any other alternate way, where my desktop need not be ON?

    Thanks - Kd 

  • Expiscornovus Profile Picture
    31,652 Most Valuable Professional on 29 Dec 2021 at 09:38:20
    Re: How to automate login to website, click links, fill in details and download file

    Hi @Anonymous,

     

    I would suggest to create a desktop flow for this within Power Automate. Most of the steps you want to automate can probably be executed with actions from Browser Automation category:

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/desktop-flows/actions-reference/webautomation

     

     

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