Microsoft flow as a last resort in place of cron and windows scheduler

You know the situation: while you are not the biggest fan of MS out there, your employer's IT department are. Of course you don't really have proper access to a Linux system to set up a cronjob to do your data fetching for you, and you don't even have an 'always on' windows machine to be able to do this via Task Scheduler.

Well, you have to make do with what you have, and in this case, that is Office 365, a lesser known component of it called Flow. There is an upside to this to rescue your pride somewhat: while it is a humble office app it uses the same language as azure logic apps, so think of it as cloud training!