Download Tool giving website code

Question

Hi Alteryx Community,

This is my first time using this tool.

I'm having trouble with the Download Tool. After successfully adding a URL, the data appears be in an HTML format making it impossible to process.

I've checked the URL and output settings, and I've tried different character encodings in the Input Data Tool, but the issue persists.

Has anyone faced similar issues? Any tips on handling Unicode data in Alteryx would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

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apathetichell · Answer

To be clear --- your response is ALWAYS going to be in html, xml, json or raw/encoded bytes --- and hopefully you mean an xlsx file --- not an xls file.

apathetichell · Answer

hypothesis --- the download tool is best suited for APIs --- you are trying to using for webscraping. The page you are trying to scrape will not allow direct requests. If you throw the same URL in Postman and hit run - you'll get the same redirect/Not Found content.

davidskaife · Answer

@MudgilNiket

Screenshot of your screenshots....

You need to provide more detail on what you're trying to extract, where from, your tool configuration, any documentation etc