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KEMKEM
Regular Visitor
2 years ago

How to use the Power Bi Rest Api without the refreshtoken?

I have a powershell script which is using the Power Bi Rest Api. For the authentication they use some strange solution. They capture the refresh token from the browser and save it in a txt file. Than...
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lbendlin
Super User
2 years ago

Ask for a bog standard auth token each time before your API call.  You need to have an app registered with the required scope, client secret etc.

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KEMKEM
Regular Visitor
2 years ago

Hi lbendlin  Do you have more info? Maybe some link to a tutorial or blog? Or some code snipped?

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    lbendlin
    Super User
    2 years ago

    for example

     

    # Calls the Active Directory Authentication Library (ADAL) to authenticate against AAD
function GetAuthToken
{
    if(-not (Get-Module AzureRm.Profile)) {
        Import-Module AzureRm.Profile
    }
    $clientId = "xxx"
    $redirectUri = "urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob"
    $resourceAppIdURI = "https://analysis.windows.net/powerbi/api"
    $authority = "https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/authorize";
    $authContext = New-Object "Microsoft.IdentityModel.Clients.ActiveDirectory.AuthenticationContext" -ArgumentList $authority
    $authResult = $authContext.AcquireToken($resourceAppIdURI, $clientId, $redirectUri, "Auto")
    return $authResult
}

# Get the auth token from AAD
$token = GetAuthToken