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April
Regular Visitor

Google sheet URL changes when refreshing data

Hi,

 

I'm using an AWS virtual machine in which by refreshing the data, the following error occurs:

 

Web.Contents failed to get contents from (https://doc-08-60-sheets.googleusercontent.com/export/<guid1>/<guid2>/<guid3>/<guid4>/*/<sheet guid>?usp=xlsx') (400): Bad Request

 

The above URL which is mentioned in this error message is different than the original source URL, please see below: 

 

ORIGINAL IN SOURCE URL
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/<sheet guid>/export?usp=xlsx

 

I can view and download the original source URL.

 

Can anyone please help? Thanks.

 

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v-lionel-msft
Community Support
Community Support

Hi @April ,

 

It may be that your connection steps are wrong (such as using the wrong URL), try to refer to the following article.

Connect Google Sheets to Power BI: An Easy Guide 

 

Best regards,
Lionel Chen

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amitchandak
Super User
Super User

@April , Not very clear. But there is minor modification required in google sheet url to access on power bi

I discussed here, see if that can help -https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Power-Platform-Integrations/Power-Apps-Power-BI-Better-together-Wri...

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Hi,

 

The thing is that we download the google sheet to excel, please check the original source URL:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/<sheet guid>/export?usp=xlsx

 

Error message contains a very different URL.

https://doc-08-60-sheets.googleusercontent.com/export/<guid1>/<guid2>/<guid3>/<guid4>/*/<sheet guid>?usp=xlsx'

 

The google sheet has been set to "Anyone who has the link can VIEW"

We also tried export?format=xlsx, same error.

 

How can we solve this error message?

 

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