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Help with POST API
Hi I have been pouring over the internet trying to solve this problem, but am stumped. If there is helpful information elsewhere I may have missed, please point me in the right direction.
We have a piece of equipment which stores data to a cloud service. The service provides JSON files with the data via REST API. Currently we are using Postman to generate the POST command using Basic Auth to recieve the token. We then use the token to run several other GET requests to get the JSON files we need. The JSON files are then edited using notepad++, and the imported into PowerBI via queries. I am confident all of this can be done within Power BI, I just don't know how. Here is the console data from Postman to receive the token:
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v-piga-msftResident Rockstar
Hi smeredith ,
If I understand your sceanrio correctly that you want to get data with the REST API in power bi desktop?
If so, please refer to the similar threads firstly.
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/How-to-run-POST-request-in-M/td-p/457138
If you need any other help, free to ask.
Best Regards,
Cherry
Thank you for the information. I have made several attempts, but generally fail with the 405 Method not allowed error. Presently I am only trying to receive the bearer token from the URL using basic auth.
Attempt 1:
let
Source = Json.Document(Web.Contents("https://forneyvaultapi-v5staging.azurewebsites.net/api/Authenticate"))
in
Source
Attempt 2:
let
auth_key ="Basic ZWRlbmlubm92YXBpQGZvcm5leXZhdWx0LmNvbTpjcUBebV8rQmhnNl5laEdQ",
url = "https://forneyvaultapi-v5staging.azurewebsites.net/api/Authenticate",
header =[#"Authorization"=auth_key,
#"Content-Type"="application/json; charset=utf-8"],
content1="{
[email protected],
password=password
}",
webdata1=Web.Contents(url, [Headers=header,Content=Text.ToBinary(content1)]),
response1=Json.Document(webdata1)
in
response1
Attempt 3:
let
authkey="Basic ZWRlbmlubm92YXBpQGZvcm5leXZhdWx0LmNvbTpjcUBebV8rQmhnNl5laEdQ",
url = "https://forneyvaultapi-v5staging.azurewebsites.net/api/Authenticate",
source = Json.Document(Web.Contents(url,[Headers = [Authorization = authkey, #"content-type" = "application/json:charset = utf-8"]]))
in
sourceAttempt 4:
let
url="https://forneyvaultapi-v5staging.azurewebsites.net/api/Authenticate",
auth_key = "BASIC ZWRlbmlubm92YXBpQGZvcm5leXZhdWx0LmNvbTpjcUBebV8rQmhnNl5laEdQ",
header= [
#"Content-Type" = "application/json; charset=utf-8",
#"Authorization" = auth_key,
#"Accept"="*/*",
#"Cache-Control"="no-cache",
#"Host"="forneyvaultapi-v5staging.azurewebsites.net",
#"Accept-Encoding"="gzip, deflate",
#"Content-Length"=84,
#"Connection"="keep-alive"
],webdata = Web.Contents(url),
response = Json.Document(webdata)
in
responseAttempt 5:
let
url="https://forneyvaultapi-v5staging.azurewebsites.net/api/Authenticate",
header= [
#"Content-Type" = "application/json",
#"Authorization" = auth_key,
#"Accept"="*/*",
#"Cache-Control"="no-cache",
#"Host"="forneyvaultapi-v5staging.azurewebsites.net",
#"Accept-Encoding"="gzip, deflate",
#"Content-Length"=84,
#"Cookie"="ARRAffinity=84bf4a47daca0e8b2456e7f9b916668a7467930da7d6cbd0753e915d0fcce476",
#"Connection"="keep-alive",
#"username"="[email protected]",
#"password"="password"
],
auth_key = "BASIC ZWRlbmlubm92YXBpQGZvcm5leXZhdWx0LmNvbTpjcUBebV8rQmhnNl5laEdQ",body="{""username"":""[email protected]"",""password"":""password""}",
webdata = Web.Contents(url),
response = Json.Document(webdata)
in
responseAttempt 6:
let
url="https://forneyvaultapi-v5staging.azurewebsites.net/api/Authenticate",
body="{""username"":""[email protected]"",""password"":""password""}",
Source = Json.Document(Web.Contents(url,[Headers= [
#"Content-Type" = "application/json",
#"Authorization" = auth_key,
#"Accept"="*/*",
#"Cache-Control"="no-cache",
#"Accept-Encoding"="gzip, deflate",
#"Cookie"="ARRAffinity=84bf4a47daca0e8b2456e7f9b916668a7467930da7d6cbd0753e915d0fcce476",
#"Connection"="keep-alive",
#"username"="[email protected]",
#"password"="password"
]])),auth_key = "BASIC ZWRlbmlubm92YXBpQGZvcm5leXZhdWx0LmNvbTpjcUBebV8rQmhnNl5laEdQ"
in
#"Source"
