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adam3039
9 years agoNew Member
Pull data from RESTful API with token authentication
Is there any way to retrieve a token (providing a user/pass/grant-type as a urlencodedform) from a RESTful API, and then provide that token with subsequent API calls? We have a large RESTful API that...
- Anonymous9 years ago
Hi adam3039,
According to your description, you want to get the token of restful api, right?
You can write a power query function to get token,then use this function as the parameter to call the api.For detail information about get token, you can refer below article:
REST API Token-based AuthenticationCall API Sample:
let CallAPi= ( URI as text, Username as text, Token as text, Paremeter as table, optional Timeout as number ) as any => let WebTimeout = if Timeout = null then #duration(0,0,0,100) else #duration(0,0,0,Timeout) , WebServiceContent = function(Paremeter),//format parameters to content WebResponse = Web.Contents(Username&":"&Token&URI, [Content = Text.ToBinary(WebServiceContent), Headers = [Authorization="xxxxx", #"Content-Type"="application/json", Accept="application/json"], Timeout = WebTimeout]), output = formatfunction(WebResponse) //format the response in output in CallAPiRegards,
Xiaoxin Sheng
Anonymous
8 years agoNot applicable
hi adam3039,
Im facing the same problem ,is it success for you?Can you please share the connection method and code ?
Thanks in advance.