Reading numbers from a web page

[John_MCC]

Hi folks, bit of brain picking here. I'm working on an automation to pull some values from a web page so I'm using the 'Get details of elements on web page" to find the the value as shown below. This is working fine and I'm pulling info for 2 items - active users and suppliers. Both are returning 'numbers' as expected but I actually suspect they are being stored as text and not numbers. I want to be able to add these two values together so for example, if Active users is 16 and Suppliers is 1 I want to add them and get 17.

So to do that I have been using Set variable to try and add both the Active user & Supplier User together - result should be 17 but I'm outputting (16 + 1). Have also tried removing the brackets, get the same result hence I'm sure it is coming in as a text string & not numbers.

Anyone any idea how to pull data from a web page and store it as a number?

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hello @John_MCC 

Please try this syntax: %ActiveUsers + SupplierUsers%.

Please refer document below for more details.

Variable manipulation and the % notation - Power Automate | Microsoft Docs

Also, if you are sure the value extracted from web is stored as Text (string) type, you can use action "Convert text to number" to make it as numeric type.

Thank you.

[John_MCC]

Thank you, this is brilliant, I had not added the convert text to number parts, it now works perfectly, thank you!