This is the data I want to get, but from all 400+ events listed in the past event section. If you look at a few more events, you’ll notice the structure is the exact same and they all have a results table. If you click on one of the events you’ll see a results table. If you visit the Wikipedia page for UFC events there’s a table of Past Events. I’m a big MMA fan, so the example we’re going to look at is getting a list of all UFC results from Wikipedia. In this post we’re going to take a look at how we can pull data from a series of similar pages. Remember, if you’re not using Excel 2016 or later, then you’ll need to install the power query add-in. This is great for getting data from a webpage that is updated frequently as you will be able easily refresh your query to pull the new data. Within a couple of minutes you can build a query that will pull data from a webpage and transform it into the desired format. There is no need to modify the query source as long as the file and folder are in the same directory.Excel’s Power Query (or Get & Transform since Excel 2016) is a great tool for building queries to get data from the web. While using Box Drive, whoever opens the file now has a dynamic connection. Source = Folder.Files(Excel.CurrentWorkbook()) You don’t need to watch the entire video as we only need a small excerpt (from around 00:01:39 – 00:02:36). The technique I used is described in the ExcelIsFun YouTube Channel. Power Query Sample File File as Parameter The current Source of the folder Learn how to Combine files in a folder One of the first steps was a definition of the Source. Power Query transforms the files producing a usable query We have an Excel file, 01-dynamic-filepath.xlsx, that is getting data from a folder ( dynamic-filepath) which contains two simple files.
I will show how you how I created a dynamic Source so no one has to go into the Advanced Editor to fix the filepath. It travels with the file, and since this needs to be a shared file, the connection becomes broken for any other user. The point being, this is a hard-coded value. In the Get Data from Folder process the source is defined as Source = Folder.Files("C:\Users\username\Desktop\dynamic-filepath") as an example. I could have chosen to Get Data from Folder for all carriers however, it only really made sense to use this method for our USPS® daily transactions. To reduce the amount of data entry that was previously done, we began collecting our invoice information electronically from the carriers. One of the first Excel projects that I created was a reconciliation report for our postage charge-backs.
In this post, I am going to discuss an option for creating a dynamic filepath for use as a Source in an Excel to Power Query connection.
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