Entering data

With your web browser open to the sample site, https://web-scraping.dev, click the login link to view the credentials for the page:

Figure 20.20 – Viewing the credentials for the sample website

In this exercise, we’ll store the credentials in variables and then log in to the site using these steps:

1. With the Power Automate Desktop flow open, drag the Set variable action above the first step in the flow.
2. Update the Variable name to username and update the value to user123.
3. Click Save.
4. Add another Set variable action at step 2, directly under the first Set variable action.
5. Update the Variable name to password and update the value to password.
6. Add the Go to web page action before the Close web browser action.
7. On the Go to web page action, set the URL field to https://web-scraping.dev/login.

Figure 20.21 – Updating the browser URL

8. Click Save.
9. Add the Populate text...