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In this live tutorial Shally Steckerl and co‑host Glenn walk through building a web‑scraping automation in Microsoft Power Automate Desktop (PAD). They start with a real‑world use case – extracting speaker details from the ODSC virtual conference page – and demonstrate how to launch a browser, record element selections (name, title, company, bio, LinkedIn URL), set a pager for navigating multiple profiles, and export the collected data to an Excel spreadsheet. The session then shifts to troubleshooting recurring errors such as “Failed to extract data – web page error” and “Failed to assume control of Chrome/Edge”. They discover that multiple background Chrome instances cause PAD to lose control, and resolve it by closing all background apps and using a single fresh browser instance (or disabling “continue running background apps”). They repeat the process on a second site (AWS partners) to show pagination handling, regex for post‑processing, and limiting the number of pages. Finally they discuss enriching the scraped data with external tools like SeekOut, Swordfish, or Kendo, and recap best practices for reliable PAD web‑automation.

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