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marianamarques
Advocate I
Advocate I

Connecting to WEB API - Channel Advisor

Hi community,

 

I've been searching and trying different ways to connect with a website that manages our marketplaces without success.
I'm sure it's probably something "basic" that I'm missing but since I have no experience with APIs and connecting to websites I have no idea of what could be.

 

The website that I'm trying to connect to is channeladvisor.com and I've created a developer account which provides me a key:

https://developer.channeladvisor.com/the-developer-console 

I want to only view our orders in Power BI so I'm assuming that I should connect to this link:
https://api.channeladvisor.com/v1/orders according to the instructions here https://developer.channeladvisor.com/working-with-orders

 

I've written blank queries such as:

let
apiUrl = "https://api.channeladvisor.com/v1/Orders",
options = [Headers =[#"Subscription-Key"="XXXXXXXX "]],
result = Web.Contents(apiUrl , options)
in
result

 

but they give me no results, I can only see the query and no tables

 

Also I tried to connect via WEB and added the API key but I keep getting that " A web API key can only be specified when a web API key name is provided"

 

Does anyone have any idea of what I could be doing wrong?

 

Thank you so much in advance! 

 

 

 

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v-yulgu-msft
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

Hi @marianamarques,

 

Were you able to connect to the API source without specifying orders view? I mean the basic API address.

 

Would you please try this, then supply an “Api Key” via the credential UI? 

Web.Contents(URL, [ApiKeyName="mykey"])

 

Regards,

Yuliana Gu

Community Support Team _ Yuliana Gu
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