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jayhawk
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6 years ago

Connect to API. Bearer Token

Hi I am having a hard time connecting to data via API.  I am attempting pull out data from Samsara, https://www.samsara.com/api#. (the website is public info).  They use something called Bearer Toke...
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tariqpervez
Regular Visitor
4 years ago

I have a similar situation where I am trying to extract distance data of fleets through Fleet company's web API service. I am done with API authentication from where I got a ClientID, UserID & Token. Now using this information, I am trying to make  API calls from power bi. Below are the snapshots of steps which I followed; 

when the API call completes it shows null in data and an error

I have further expanded the error below. It says that "TotalDistance" property in "Distance" report cannot be set to a System.Decimal value it should be set to a non-null value of type System.Double

apart from this, I have tried making calls from their web API service portal and it runs fines and gives responses in JSON. Below is the snapshot of that 

 

 

 

Please provide your valuable feedback on this problem.