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Syndicate_Admin
Administrator
3 years agoWeb.Contents with the Content option is supported only when connecting anonymously.
Hello I'm trying to connect to a data source using a POST request. To do this, I am creating a blank query that follows the following scheme: Let url = "", body = "{}", hea...
- Anonymous3 years ago
Hi Anonymous ,
Here is the sample code(use token to login and get access token for following operations) about use anonymous mode authorization to get data from web connector, you can take a look on it if helps:
let url = "api.xxxx.com", body = "{}", token = "xxxxxxxx", header = [ #"Content-Type" = "application/json", #"Authoritation" = "Basic " & token ], response = Web.Contents(url, [ RelativePath = "/xxxx/login", Headers = header, Content = Text.ToBinary(body) ]), AccessToken = Json.Document(response)[access_token], JsonResponse = Web.Contents( url, [ RelativePath = "/xxx/xxx", Headers = [ Authoraztion = "Basic " & AccessToken, #"Content-Type" = "application/json" ] ] ), Result = Json.Document(JsonResponse) in ResultRegards,
Xiaoxin Sheng
- 3 years ago
Hello
Finally, I got it to work with the code I was providing. It would be necessary to pass the authentication method in the Header of the request and at the moment in which Power BI asks for the credentials, choose the option of "Anonymous". In this way, it connects correctly.
Thank you.
Little-Mike
2 years agoNew Member
If you want to help, you should take care for correct spelling in your code sample: you write "Authoritation" and also "Authoraztion"...