Create guide for scraping from websites that use PowerBI

[collincr]

Goal is to scrape data from the elements published using PowerBI, which is used by public health websites from Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties.

A related stackoverflow thread suggest a combination of Python and Selenium:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55063265/scraping-data-from-a-website-which-uses-power-bi-retrieving-data-from-power-bi

[frhino]

How is it going with this one @collincr ? Need help?

[collincr]

Hi @frhino, thanks for checking, I'm a bit stuck with this.
So far I've been able to identify the elements using the method on the linked stackoverflow page, but unable to retrieve anything else from them.

[elaguerta]

Hi @collincr and @frhino, this does seem tricky and at this point I wouldn't bet that it's possible. I have emailed the counties with PowerBI dashboards to request that they enable data export, but I'm not holding my breath. @collincr, if you feel really stuck, maybe you can switch to knocking out the lower hanging fruit (counties with scrapable html and arcgis dashboards). Perhaps when we have a presentable set of visualizations for some of the counties, we can approach the Power BI counties and persuade them to work with us on getting included in the visualizations.

[collincr]

Thanks @elaguerta, happy to work on one of the other counties for the time being.