API Call Help

[ericOnline]

Hello,

I'm trying to use the Advanced Editor to make an API call for the first time. I've watched Chris Webb's excellent video on the subject and took a bunch of notes, but i'm missing something here. In the video, I noted his call as:

let
    Source = Web.Contents("https://baseURL",
        [
            RelativePath="hello",
            Query = [
                key = "value1"
                key = "value2"
            ],
            ApiKeyName = "apikeyskdjf;asdkfj]"])
        ]
        )
in
    Source

But my query parameters didn't like this format.

The call I'm trying to make is a GET request: 

let
    Source = Web.Contents(
        "https://somecompanysAPI.com/v2/",
            [
                RelativePath="historical",
                    Query = 
    {
  "geocode": {
    "lon": -122.31177520752,
    "lat": 47.4498901367188
  },
  "location_id": "",
  "start_time": "2017-11-01T12:00:00Z",
  "end_time": "2017-11-07T12:00:00Z",
  "timestep": 60,
  "fields": [
        {"name": "temp", "units": "F"},
        {"name": "feels_like", "units": "F"},
        {"name": "dewpoint", "units": "F"},
        {"name": "wind_speed", "units": "mph"},
        {"name": "wind_gust", "units": "mph"},
        {"name": "baro_pressure", "units": "inHg"},
        {"name": "visibility", "units": "km"},
        {"name": "precipitation", "units": "in/hr"},
        {"name": "cloud_cover", "units": "%"},
        {"name": "cloud_ceiling", "units": "ft"},
        {"name": "cloud_base","units": "ft"},
        {"name": "humidity", "units": "%"},
        {"name": "wind_direction", "units": "degrees"},
        {"name": "precipitation_type"},
        {"name": "sunrise"},
        {"name": "sunset"}
  ]
}
                ApiKeyName = "thisisnotreallymyAPIkeydude"
            ]
    )

in
    Source

Can someone with more experience see what I'm missing here as far as syntax goes?

Thank yoU!

[ericOnline]

Still needing some assistance here. I've boiled down the code a bit to make it easier to read. Can you see why this is not working?

I should be more clear here on what I'm looking for help with:

Method: POST

Authentication: API Key sent in Request Header

Parameterized Request?: No, JSON request, not a parameterized URL
Body: JSON

Request Headers?: Yes, 3 (apikey, accept, Content-Type)

Response: JSON

Response Headers?: Yes, 11 (though I don't think I need to craft the response headers, they should auto)

Error in Advanced Editor: "Invalid Identifier" error on the word "geocode".

I've tried "Query" and "Content" in the below M with no success. The docs on Web.Contents have NO examples (and the Github contribute link is broken on that site!). For some reason, not many people are making POST requests with PowerBI so there are like NO examples of this on the internet besides Chris Webb's video. But I can't glean how to do it from his video (@ ~24:54 mark) because he digresses a bit at EXACTLY the moment he covers POST requests!

let
    Source = Web.Contents(
        "https://somecompanysAPI.com/v2/historical",
            [
                Query = [
                    "geocode": {
                        "lon": -122.31177520752,
                        "lat": 47.4498901367188
                    },
                    "location_id": "",
                    "start_time": "2017-11-01T12:00:00Z",
                    "end_time": "2017-11-07T12:00:00Z",
                    "timestep": 60,
                    "fields": [
                    ],
                ApiKeyName = "thisisnotreallymyAPIkeydude"
            ]
    )

in
    Source

 Does anyone have insights on this? An example or two of how you do it?

Thank you very much!

[ericOnline · Accepted solution]

Ok! I figured this out from the great example in the Forums found here: https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Connect-to-a-Web-Service-sending-parameters/m-p/295990#M130.... Thank you @Anonymous!

Here is what I ended up going with: 

let
    url = "https://company.com/api/path",
    headers = [
        #"apikey" = "thisisnotreallymyapikey",
        #"accept" = "application/json",
        #"Content-Type" = "application/json"
    ],
    content = "{
        ""key"": {
                    ""nestedKey"": value,
                    ""nestedKey"": value
                },
                ""key"": """",
                ""key"": ""value"",
                ""key"": ""value"",
                ""key"": value,
                ""key"": [
                ]
    }",
    webdata = Web.Contents(url, [Headers=headers,Content = Text.ToBinary(content)]),
    response = Json.Document(webdata)
in
    response

Whew! I should have searched the forums better! NOTED 🙂