Power Query pull Web pages

macfuller

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  1. 365
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I recently wanted to use the Wall Street Journal exchange rate page to pull the rates into my Excel data model. I hadn't needed this for a couple of years but it's time again to convert currencies.

They seem to have changed the format - my old query broke as it was unable to pull the table. This works in PowerBI but Excel can't seem to read it (Office 365 64-bit v2002)

Searching on Google led to this page, which in turn led to a 2017 post by Gil Raviv.

But manually diving into HTML tags and determining their <div> position is ridiculous... if more websites are moving to displaying tables this way, is there some more recent improvement to Power Query that copes with this method of display?
 

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