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Anonymous
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5 years ago

Rest API as source does not work in service

I have a report with a Rest API source from a website, which refreshes fine in Power BI Desktop, but gives an error in the service.  The result is json.   This is my code: The error given i...
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PhilipTreacy
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5 years ago

Hi Anonymous 

If the API is returning HTML then it could be a 401, 403 or 404 error message. Or perhaps a firewall is blocking the request.

The username and password are definitely correct?

Has the Token expired?

You could try using Postman to issue the requests and see what is being returned.

Regards

Phil

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