A workflow needs data from an external website that returns rendered HTML rather than structured JSON or XML — is there a way to get usable data out of that into IFS?

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Before building anything to parse rendered HTML, check whether the source website has an underlying data API behind its visual page (many sites that render charts or tables server their own frontend from a separate JSON/XML endpoint) — inspecting the network calls a chart or table view on that site makes is a quick way to find it, and calling that underlying API directly from the workflow is far more reliable and far less brittle than scraping rendered HTML.

Documentation-based answer. Confirm the product and release before applying it. This answer has not been verified in an IFS environment.

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