Introduction
In Power Automate, the most common scenario is to extract parameters that are present in a website URL, which can be achieved easily using uriQuery Function as an example.
Step 1
Login to the required Power Apps environment using URL make.powerapps.com by providing the user name and password and click on Flows on the left-hand side as shown in the below figure.
Step 2
After step 1, Click on New Flow and select instant cloud flow and provide the trigger as Manually trigger a flow and click on Create as shown in the below figure.
Step 3
After step 2, name the flow as uriQuery to hold Website URL with parameters we must click on + New Step and Choose compose operation and provide the following
Step name is Compose - Weburl with Parameters
Inputs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=dhA9R3PaFew
And click on save as shown in the below figure.
Step 4
After step 3, click on + New Step and Choose the compose operation and provide the following:
Step name as Compose - use uriQuery Expression
and click on Inputs and in the down window click on Expression tab and see for uriQuery
uriQuery (uri: string)
and provide value as
uriQuery(outputs('Compose_-_Weburl_with_Parameters'))
And click on ok/Update as shown in the below figure.
Step 5
After step 4, test and run the flow and see the desired result as shown in the below figure.
Note
- Make sure to save and run the flow whenever you try expressions.
- MS documentation is found here
Conclusion
In this way, we can easily extract parameters from URL in Power Automate flow.