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moltra
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5 years ago
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storing data from a web API

I am going to be pulling data from a web API on a weekly basis.  The API returns 7 days of data at a time.  I will be refreshing this data Either daily or Weekly.     I want to save the data retrie...
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  • parry2k's avatar
    parry2k
    5 years ago

    moltra maybe use ADF (Azure Data Factory) or Power Automate, make an API call, store data on blob storage or insert in SQL Server and then use Power BI to read from the stored data.

     

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v-lionel-msft
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5 years ago

Hi parry2k ,

 

Store data in Power BI Service in the form of Dataflow. You can connect to this dataflow directly when creating a report.

 

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Lionel Chen

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