So some of it is actually reading the webpage, taking information off of the webpage, and doing things with it. We're trying to automate some of that process to link the systems together. There are some very long processes that are happening now, where we need to move data from one system to another and do some analysis, and all of that. I run a clubby cloud system for moving data back and forth. What I'm actually doing is interacting with actual systems. So it's a desktop piece that I'm actually using and that's definitely on-premise.

Microsoft Power Automate is on-premises because I'm using the Power Automate Desktop. That's kind of why I'm not quite ready to publish because I'm not an expert yet, but I am actively working on it. I haven't found my way out of the snags as yet. I've actually started creating some bots. Said that, let me show you how quickly we can get data from a web page using RPA, with Power Automate Desktop (PAD).It's a pretty big learning curve with Microsoft Power Automate and I'm trying to do a couple of other things. Not going to stop here, so for more info about it, go to That’s way its important to check it before start so you don't harm the target web page. This is intended to avoid overload a webpage. The first thing to have in mind here is that before proceed with getting data from a web, you should check the robots.txt, like /robots.txt, here you will find what is allowed and what is not.

Let me share this in case it can be helpful for someone else. There are many ways to accomplish this, like selenium, Python with BeautifulSoup, also there are web browser's extensions, but this time I wanted to do it with an RPA tool and as I was testing Power automate desktop from Microsoft, I used it. I was in need to easily scrape some data from the web.

Web scraping with power automate