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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...
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  • tonmcg's avatar
    tonmcg
    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.

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MarkSL
Helper V
7 years ago

Hi tonmcg 

 

Apologies, I can't see any column 'creativeCommons '?  This is new territory for me so please forgive me if I am missing something obvious!

 

Another question if you could help.  From  function will return table of results.  How do I go about linking multiple rows to the field I've passed as a parameter in the function?

 

Thanks again,

 

Mark

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MarkSL
Helper V
7 years ago

Hi tonmcg 

 

Now understood.  I've deleted the last line from the script 'DefinedDataTypes ' and its now working.

 

Thanks for all your help!