Alternative ways for report publishing

I am not sure I fully understand the "without employing the PowerBI Desktop app" part, but if you would like to publish the Report through the Power BI API, the possible way is to publish the corresponding PBIX file.

There is a blog talking about the similar process (include the export/Import PBIX API, and the Clone report API), using PowerShell scripts.

Currenlty through the Power BI API, we could perform the following actions with the reports:

The Power BI REST API has the following Report operations:

• Clone report
• Delete report
• Export report
• Get reports
• Get report
• Rebind report
• Update Report Content

Regards,

Michael