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script running looping URLs and get data
- 9 years ago
When you add a custom column (Invoke Custom Function), change the drop down to Column Name and select the app_id column. Then, the function will pass in the app_id value from each row into the function (into the URL) and perform the query steps you designed earlier. If you need to pass a bearer token to the URL for each app_id value, if it is the same bearer token for every app_id, you can add an Authorization header to the URL request.
For example, I have a dashboard that pulls data from Twitter. Once I obtain the access token (it is the result of a different query named AccessToken) here is the function I use to query Twitter:
(params) => let GetJsonQuery = Web.Contents("https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json" & params, [ Headers = [#"Authorization"=AccessToken] ] ), FormatAsJsonQuery = Json.Document(GetJsonQuery), data = try FormatAsJsonQuery[statuses] otherwise null, next = try FormatAsJsonQuery[search_metadata][next_results] otherwise null, res = [Data=data, Next=next] in resI have a table with a column of search words, where the column name is "keyword". The parameter named "params" that started off the function above is defined as:
params = "?q=" & keyword & "&count=100"
So you can see how the column of hard coded search terms is passed into the url part defined by "params" which is in turn passed into the function. The function runs on every row in my table of "keyword", so each row returns a table of results, which I can then expand and Power BI will automatically append the results into one table.
Note: This is not the entire query and will not return results (the "data", "next" and "res" variables are used in another query that iterates through pages of results). Hopefully this shows you how to structure your web call using the bearer token.
I can help with adding a bearer token parameter but it will require custom M code so I will need to get back to you
I did create a custom function where appID is defined as Text and it's coming from Parameters, which I don't want. How do I get it to accept appIDs from another query( aa_app_id query)? When I changed the 'aa_app_id as table', a dropdown list allowing another query to be chosen. Does this mean that aa_app_id is searched and processed if it's found in another query? But error after invoking:
An error occurred in the ‘new_app_id’ query. Expression.Error: We cannot apply operator & to types Text and Table.
Details:
Operator=&
Left=https://api.appannie.com/v1.2/intelligence/apps/ios/app/
Right=Table
My aa_app_id query:
let
Source = Excel.Workbook(File.Contents("<filename>.xlsx"), null, true),
Table1_Table = Source{[Item="Table1",Kind="Table"]}[Data],
#"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Table1_Table,{{"aa_app_id", type text}}),
#"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "URL request", each "https://api.appannie.com/v1.2/intelligence/apps/ios/app/"&[aa_app_id]&"/history?countries=US&feeds=downloads&device=all&start_date=2016-01-01&end_date=2017-02-28&granularity=monthly&device=iphone"),
#"Changed Type1" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Added Custom",{{"URL request", type text}})
in
#"Changed Type1"
Thanks in advance.