API Calls with Parameters = need help

[wkeicher]

Need Help with Invoking API Call with Paramaters.

The API call is as follows. I am passing in the paramater (newsdate)

https://api.sportsdata.io/v3/nba/scores/json/NewsByDate/2020-MAR-08

When I invoke the following:

I get the following error

I believe this has to do with formatting the Parameter, but it has numbers and characters.

Assistance would be greatly appreciated.

[v-yuta-msft]

@wkeicher ,

You need to convert date to text type like below:

Text.From(newsdate)

Or use query parameter instead and try again, please refer to:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-query/power-query-query-parameters

Community Support Team _ Jimmy Tao

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

[wkeicher]

Thank you for the response.

It seems I still have a formatting issue. Teh URL has specific requirements when passing the date - YYYY-MMM-DD or 2020-MAR-07.

Thanks,

Wayne

[v-yuta-msft]

@wkeicher ,

I would suggest you to use fiddler to catch the actual http request and check if the URL in fiddler is same with that in power query.

Regards,

Jimmy Tao

[wkeicher · Accepted solution]

@amitchandak @v-yuta-msft 

I actually figured it out. I had to declare the (newsdate as text) =>

Source = Json.Document(Web.Contents(Text.From("https://api.sportsdata.io/v3/nba/scores/json/NewsByDate/"&(newsdate)&"

Thanks for your guidance.

[amitchandak]

@wkeicher 

Refer: https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Cannot-Apply-operator-Text-and-List-Conversion-required-or/...

https://www.excelforum.com/excel-programming-vba-macros/1264360-power-query-error-we-cannot-apply-op...