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PieterS
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5 years ago
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API POST with Bearer Token

Hi All,   I am fairly new to PowerBI and trying to connect to an API to load data into my report.  The API documentation requires a POST request for a bearer token which should then be used when ca...
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PieterS
Frequent Visitor
5 years ago

Thansk for your reply!  I managed to get it to work as follows:

 

let
url = "https://data.springboardanalyser.com/token",
GetJson = Web.Contents(url,
[
Headers = [#"Accept"="application/json",
#"Content-Type"="application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8"],
Content = Text.ToBinary("username=MYUSERNAME&password=MYPASWORD&grant_type=password")
]
),
FormatAsJson = Json.Document(GetJson),

// Gets token from the Json response
AccessToken = FormatAsJson[access_token],
AccessTokenHeader = "bearer " & AccessToken,
GetJsonQuery = Web.Contents("https://data.springboardanalyser.com/api/footfalloutput/historic?StartDate=2019-01-01&endDate=2021-12-01",
[
Headers = [#"Authorization"=AccessTokenHeader]
]
),
FormatAsJsonQuery = Json.Document(GetJsonQuery),
#"Converted to Table" = Table.FromList(FormatAsJsonQuery, Splitter.SplitByNothing(), null, null, ExtraValues.Error)
in

  • ebonnett's avatar
    ebonnett
    New Member
    2 years ago

    I'm somewhat new to PowerBI (I've been a full stack dev for 25 years). My questions are:
    1) What data source do I select for the report when I have a service that issues a token from the client secret and client id? Web? Because if I select web, it wants the url of the service.

    2) Where does the code listed above go? Do I click the Transform Data and get into the advanced editor?

     

    I guess I'm asking this: From the time you click "File" -> "Blank Report", how do I get to the point where I am writing this code to get the token and then call the api endpoint to get the data? 

     

    Thanks!