Doubt about RestAPI Real time data

[kadee15]

Hi, i want to use Power BI REST API to get reports on my account and show them on my web app. My doubt is:

When a user access to my app and see the iframe with report obtained by C# code, will it be real time data? What i mean is... will iframe data stay cached 1 hour like "publish to web" option or it'll always be real time access to data and info on report?

If you need a better explanation, just tell me and ill try to give you better.

Thank you so much! 

[Eric_Zhang]

@kadee15

It should be real time, check the first paragraph at What can developers do with Power BI? And I don't notice some latency when embeding report via Power BI REST API.

Hi, i want to use Power BI REST API to get reports on my account and show them on my web app. My doubt is:

When a user access to my app and see the iframe with report obtained by C# code, will it be real time data? What i mean is... will iframe data stay cached 1 hour like "publish to web" option or it'll always be real time access to data and info on report?

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By the way, the user can't access the report unless the user has access to your report in Power BI Service. 

[kadee15]

Thank you so much! I have another question:

Can i use the same user on my Azure AD configured on my C# code (same access token every time) to get reports and then show them on my app iframe to public users??? Maybe this is the right way to do it but i prefer ask before do something useless... 😃

Again thanks for help! @Eric_Zhang

[Eric_Zhang · Accepted solution]

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@kadee15 wrote:

Thank you so much! I have another question:

Can i use the same user on my Azure AD configured on my C# code (same access token every time) to get reports and then show them on my app iframe to public users??? Maybe this is the right way to do it but i prefer ask before do something useless... 😃

Again thanks for help! @Eric_Zhang

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@kadee15

This seems possible on technology aspect, however I doubt it would violate some license compliance. A better option is using Power BI Embedded, it has no license involved.