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Get Data from Cisco Spark WebEx Teams via REST API
Hello!!! I am trying to connect to the Cisco Spark instance for WebEx Teams via their REST API.
I put the URL and the Authorization header parameter (access token) into the Web connector:
After I select the OK button, I get the following error:
Has anyone seen this error before or been succesful in connecting to the Cisc Spark Webex instance?
Hi WatsonJ ,
You could configure the connection manually with m query.
let Source = Json.Document(Web.Contents("insert the URL here you used to in the regular way, and add ", [Headers=[Authorization="Basic insert your token here="]])), issues = Source[issues], in SourceHere is a similar case for your reference:
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- Pretty sure that Anonymous is not the way to go here. Just going to it in a web browser returns:
{"message":"The request requires a valid access token set in the Authorization request header.","errors":[{"description":"The request requires a valid access token set in the Authorization request header."}],"trackingId":"ROUTER_5E9783E2-D7C3-01BB-40F0-18D0D9BE40F0"}
So, I'm guessing Web API and you probably need to generate an access token in same manner. What's the authorization flow? From the site it looks there's a couple of ways - does the token have an expiry? It looks like they do, you'll need to generate a valid token first
Hi WatsonJ ,
You could configure the connection manually with m query.
let Source = Json.Document(Web.Contents("insert the URL here you used to in the regular way, and add ", [Headers=[Authorization="Basic insert your token here="]])), issues = Source[issues], in SourceHere is a similar case for your reference:
I used your query, but the only thing I changed was the word "basic" to "bearer", which apparently Cisco Spark needs. As soon as I figured that out, it worked! Hopefully if anyone searches for the meta tags on this question, they can find this solution useful. Thanks again!
