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Image Url search
It would be great to have a way to return an URL of an image related to a string.
e.g. I have a data set of pro tennis matches (Data.world) which has a field of the names of each tennis player. There doesn't seem to be set of images of the players, so it would be cool if in the dashboard you could do an image search and return the first image url of the player to so that you could set up a profile for each player including a photo of them.
I've had a look around and can't find a simple way of doing it, some talking about google image api, but can't make head nor tail of it.
Any suggestions?
Cheers.
- Anonymous8 years ago
lukestoney,
Google image api has been deprecated. You can use bing image search api instead, you can create a function in Power BI Desktop which you can call bing image search api to return image URL based on string paramete. There is a similar video for your reference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87UsaOYD-ZM
For more details about how to use bing image search api, please review this online article.
Regards,
Lydia
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- AnonymousNot applicable
lukestoney,
Google image api has been deprecated. You can use bing image search api instead, you can create a function in Power BI Desktop which you can call bing image search api to return image URL based on string paramete. There is a similar video for your reference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87UsaOYD-ZM
For more details about how to use bing image search api, please review this online article.
Regards,
Lydia