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MarkSL
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7 years ago
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Google Image API - how to handle returned data?

Hi,   I'm trying out using API calls for the first time using Google's Place Search API: https://developers.google.com/places/web-service/search.  I have successfully called the main Place Search A...
  • tonmcg's avatar
    7 years ago

    You can't. At least according to this Stack Overflow answer. The response the Google API returns is in Binary format, which doesn't support image files.

     

    It's interesting however, that when I navigate my browser to a Google Places API endpoint, it redirects me to a googleusercontent url tht contains images. I can use this URL of course to show the images. But I don't know how to capture the redirect URL programmatically through Power BI.