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Anonymous
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8 years ago

Fetch Data Password Protected Web URL into Power BI Desktop

Hi Everyone,

Please help me with this. I want to fetch data from an URL which is password protected(Basic authentication) into Power BI Desktop.
The URL have 3 files (which are hyperlinked), that means once you click on, it will download the file in csv format.
Now how to directly fetch the csv files from that url into Power BI insted of downloading those file and then loading it into BI Desktop ?

Please response to this query as it will help me alot.If anything need more clarity, please let me know.

Thanks
Shubs

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    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
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      8 years ago

      Hi v-jiascu-msft,

      Yes, I have tried it but it is not connecting..Showing error.
      The url has only 3 hyperlinks in it which when clicked download the csv file respectively.But I want to load those csv directly into Power BI.But presently not able to do so.

      • v-jiascu-msft's avatar
        v-jiascu-msft
        Microsoft Employee
        8 years ago

        Hi Anonymous,

         

        Since you have 3 hyperlinks, I would suggest you retrieve one file with one link a time. (It's possible to copy the download link). Please give it a try.

         

        Best Regards,

        Dale