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Anonymous
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Getting data via REST API using Bearer as Authentication token

Hi I have my rest api which works fine in Postman with GET method and have authorization token as Bearer token and Accept Key as JSON. I would like to know how can I pull the data in Power Bi, Can anyone provide me the syntax or steps where and how can I pull the data in Power Bi, I searched in community but I dont get one with Bearer token.

Thanks in advance.

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v-piga-msft
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Hi @Anonymous ,

If I understand your scenario correctly that you want to pull data via Rest API with GET Method and have authorization token as Bearer token.

If so, you could refer to the similar threads and blogs below firstly. 

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/How-to-authenticate-Web-data-source-REST-API-with-AAD-token/td-p/487041

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Power-BI-Query-to-Generate-Bearer-Token-for-an-OData-API/td-p/356497

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Power-Query/Pull-data-from-a-REST-API-Authentication/td-p/246006

If you still need help, feel free to ask.

Best Regards,

Cherry

 

Community Support Team _ Cherry Gao
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Anonymous
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Hi @v-piga-msft , 

Thanks for the response. I managed to figure out, the authorization token , we need to just add the text of Authorization type. 

So it works now if I pass the Authorization header as Bearer Token--xxx-xxx-id. 

The above api give me the overall result, however I am still stuck when I try to append my filter value of start and end date in my api as ../.../api/v1/data?startdate= 01-01-2012&enddate=02-02-2017. This runs fine in Postman but in Power Bi i get error as 400 Bad request. Any other way to handle the filters and is there any way to pass the date dynamically??

 

Thanks again.

 

Ankku

 

hi @Anonymous can you advise how did you work on Authorization bearer?

 

I'm having the same problem.image1.JPG

Authentication error.

 

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