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Automated API call blocked by 2FA
Hello everyone! I'm looking to set up a Python script that automates logging into my PowerBI account, navigating to a dashboard, and sharing a screenshot of that dashboard to a Slack channel once...
Hi cboisvert,
You could for example use an Entra Id app registration/service principal to interact with the Power BI api's:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/developer/embedded/embed-service-principal
Edit: And here are two code samples of that approach:
https://github.com/AntoineDW/powerbi-rest-api-python
https://github.com/areed1192/power-bi-python-api
Found in this thread: https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Developer/Connect-to-Power-BI-API-via-Python/m-p/2302692
cboisvert Use Selenium with manual 2FA for one-time authentication, but be prepared to refresh the session periodically