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Anonymous
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1 year ago
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Generating Token Dynamically from Power BI Desktop

I am trying to generate REST API token dynamically from Power BI Desktop, using power Query.   I am not sure what is causing this error. Any help is appreciated.

An error occurred in the ‘’ query. DataSource.Error: Web.Contents failed to get contents from 'https://login.mypurecloud.com.au/oauth/token' (400): Bad Request
Details:
DataSourceKind=Web
DataSourcePath=https://login.mypurecloud.com.au/oauth/token
Url=https://login.mypurecloud.com.au/oauth/token

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    1 year ago

    After making few minor changes the code is generating token in Power BI . here is the modified code

    let
    GenerateToken = () =>
    let
    url = "https://login.mypurecloud.com.au/oauth/token",
    body = "grant_type=client_credentials&client_id=<client-id>&client_secret=<Clinet_secret>",
    headers = [#"Content-Type" = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"],
    response = Web.Contents(url, [Headers = headers, Content = Text.ToBinary(body)]),
    jsonResponse = Json.Document(response),
    accessToken = jsonResponse[access_token]
    in
    accessToken
    in
    GenerateToken

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
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    Hi Anonymous ,

     

    You can try the following code in general:

    let
        GenerateToken = () =>
        let
            url = "https://login.mypurecloud.com.au/oauth/token",
            body = "grant_type=client_credentials&client_id=YOUR_CLIENT_ID&client_secret=YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET",
            headers = [#"Content-Type" = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"],
            response = Web.Contents(url, [Headers=headers, Content=Text.ToBinary(body)]),
            jsonResponse = Json.Document(response),
            accessToken = jsonResponse[access_token]
        in
            accessToken
    in
        GenerateToken
    
    let
        token = GenerateToken(),
        url = "https://api.yourservice.com/data",
        headers = [#"Authorization" = "Bearer " & token],
        response = Web.Contents(url, [Headers=headers]),
        data = Json.Document(response)
    in
        data

     

    Hope it helps!

     

    Best regards,
    Community Support Team_ Scott Chang

     

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
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    Hi, 

    Thanks for your support. i tried using above code , still gettig the same error. . Please see the attached screenshots.  in the second script i just tried displaying the token value instead passing the value to retrieve the data.

    Postman is generating the token and retrieving the data for the same credentials

    for the same URL and 

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable

    After making few minor changes the code is generating token in Power BI . here is the modified code

    let
    GenerateToken = () =>
    let
    url = "https://login.mypurecloud.com.au/oauth/token",
    body = "grant_type=client_credentials&client_id=<client-id>&client_secret=<Clinet_secret>",
    headers = [#"Content-Type" = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"],
    response = Web.Contents(url, [Headers = headers, Content = Text.ToBinary(body)]),
    jsonResponse = Json.Document(response),
    accessToken = jsonResponse[access_token]
    in
    accessToken
    in
    GenerateToken