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kirby
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API calls no longer working

Hi there

 

I have been using the auth URL below to authenticate against the Power BI API (Using Powershell) for months now and yesterday it just stopped working

 

https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/token

 

I now receive the error:

 

The remote server returned an error: (400) Bad Request.

 

I have tried to debug the call in Postman and it appears the grant_type parameter is not being validated correctly. Even though it is specified, I always receive the error:

 

Power BI API Error.png

 

Please could this be investigated as none of my Power BI refreshes are currently running

 

Thanks a lot

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v-jiascu-msft
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

Hi @kirby,

 

That might be the changes or the issues of AAD. According to the #use-the-authorization-code-to-request-an-access-token, the grant_type should be authorization_code. Please check it out. Please also refer to the below posts for the similar approaches.

 

1. https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Developer/programmatic-data-refresh-using-api/m-p/223051#M7045

2. https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Developer/Authentication-in-Powershell-and-API-to-update-a-dataset/...

3. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/developer/walkthrough-push-data-get-token

 

Best Regards,

Dale

Community Support Team _ Dale
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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v-jiascu-msft
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

Hi @kirby,

 

That might be the changes or the issues of AAD. According to the #use-the-authorization-code-to-request-an-access-token, the grant_type should be authorization_code. Please check it out. Please also refer to the below posts for the similar approaches.

 

1. https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Developer/programmatic-data-refresh-using-api/m-p/223051#M7045

2. https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Developer/Authentication-in-Powershell-and-API-to-update-a-dataset/...

3. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/developer/walkthrough-push-data-get-token

 

Best Regards,

Dale

Community Support Team _ Dale
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

Hi Dale

 

Thanks a lot for the info. I did visit most of these sites yesterday but without any luck. I tried the same thing now and it seems to be working

 

Thanks again

 

Cheers

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