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Posted on by 7,316 Most Valuable Professional

Hi All, 

 

I am trying to see if there is a way to extract data from a website either using Flow or Power Apps? I am trying to tap into live sports data, if at all possible. Any help would be greatly appreciated! 

 

Thanks,

Hardit

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    v-xida-msft Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi @PowerAddict ,

    Do you want to extract data from a live website using PowerApps or MS Flow?

     

    If you want to extract data from a live website using PowerApps or MS Flow, I afraid that there is no way to achieve your needs in PowerApps or MS Flow.

     

    Currently, there is no function or action supported in PowerApps or MS FLow to extract data from a live website. If you would like this feature to be added, please consider submit an idea to PowerApps Ideas Forum:

    https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Power-Apps-Ideas/idb-p/PowerAppsIdeas

     

    Best regards,

  • PowerAddict Profile Picture
    7,316 Most Valuable Professional on at
    I was hoping to use either to get some live sports data from a website so I could do some analytics with it or create a fantasy league app for my friends.

    I could use some APIs but they are all pretty expensive so was hoping to see if there was a way to fetch data from a website. It wouldnt be live but being able to do that on a per day basis would be super cool.

    I will create an idea for the same, hopefully there are more people who would benefit from this.

    Thanks,
    Hardit
  • mdevaney Profile Picture
    29,991 Moderator on at

    @PowerAddict 

    I disagree with @v-xida-msft that you cannot accomplish this with PowerApps or Automate.   In general there are 2 ways to consume data from a website: by using an API or by web scraping. 

     

    APIs are preferable because you can build a custom connector to access the data in PowerApps and Flow.  My preferred sports API is https://www.mysportsfeeds.com/.  They offer a free tier for non-commercial usage.  Here's what you can do with the free tier.

     

     

    Non-Commercial
    This includes developers, students, bloggers and researchers. For new subscribers, you'll automatically be assigned as a COMMERCIAL user unless you Contact Us to request NON-COMMERCIAL access. Let us know how you consider it to be non-commercial, and how our API will be used.
    
    If we agree to assign you NON-COMMERCIAL status, by default you'll have free limited postgame access. What that means:
    
    access to ALL available data feeds for all leagues.
    postgame access to the current season of each league.
    access to v1.x feeds only.
    access to only the most recent completed regular season for each league.
    limited to 100 requests/day, and 1,500 requests/month.

     

     

    The other method called web scraping is not a preferred technique for PowerApps.  Web scraping involves writing a program (in another language of your choosing) to parse the HTML of a website which extracts the desired data.  I have written Python scripts to get sports data in the past but found it unreliable because when a new webpage is published might contain new HTML which breaks my script.  Therefore, I only use this method when an API is not available.

     

    If you manage to create a fantasy sports app be sure to share a demo on the forum or community blog.  I would love to see the results of your work.

     

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    7,316 Most Valuable Professional on at
    Thanks girl the great suggestion @mdevaney

    The only problem is that these guys don't provide tennis data. I might have to get into scrapping data from a website and deal with consequences of changes in HTML when that happens. The data flow I have in mind is website->Power BI->Power Apps

    Will ley you know if and when I forcw myself to plunge into this!

    Thanks,
    Hardit Bhatia
    https://thepoweraddict.com
  • Maciej_N Profile Picture
    29 on at

    Hello,

    I'm also looking for a way to get data from a website. Specifically a URL of an image. The URL can be found in each website's head under: <meta property="og:image" content="URL">

     

    In order to grab this URL do I also need a python scraper?

    More info in my post here:

    https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Building-Power-Apps/Get-Image-from-URL/m-p/641862#M203898

     

    Cheers,

    Maciej

  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at

    I have the same need but to see in real time the status of production orders on the floor and act according to the restrictions that I want to program. I hope you can, in powerbi you can

  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at

    Effortlessly Scrape Data from Websites using Power Automate and Power Apps

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kvSlh-Tvb4

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