Usage Of uriQuery Function In Power Automate

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.

Usage of uriQuery Function in Power Automate

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.

Usage of uriQuery Function in Power Automate

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.

Usage of uriQuery Function in Power Automate

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.

Usage of uriQuery Function in Power Automate

Step 5

After step 4, test and run the flow and see the desired result as shown in the below figure.

Usage of uriQuery Function in Power Automate

Note

  1. Make sure to save and run the flow whenever you try expressions.
  2. MS documentation is found here

Conclusion

In this way, we can easily extract parameters from URL in Power Automate flow.


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