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Has anyone used the Power BI Rest API's as a data source in Power BI? I am looking to use it for some administrative reports. I am trying to get authenticated...I thought maybe Organizational Account, or Anonymous may pop open an O365 login window, but neither worked. I also tried Windows account thinking it might pass my Azure AD credentials to Power BI, but that didn't work either.
Any ideas? I am specifically thinking of this endpoint as a starting point: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/power-bi/admin/groups_getgroupsasadmin
Thanks for any ideas!
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Hi @bsmithUI,
We need the access token to authenticate the request and do it like below.
The problem is the token only survives 1 hour or more. It's hard to refresh the request. Maybe you can try the Python script with ADAL.
from adal import AuthenticationContext import requests import json import pandas as pd client_id = "a301********-98fe1dcde27e" # application id resource_uri = "https://analysis.windows.net/powerbi/api" user_name = "d*@microsoft.com" user_password = "****" auth_context = AuthenticationContext("https://login.microsoftonline.com/Your_tenant_name") token_response = auth_context.acquire_token_with_username_password(resource_uri, user_name, user_password, client_id) token = "Bearer " + token_response["accessToken"] api_url = "https://api.powerbi.com/v1.0/myorg/admin/groups" headers = {"Authorization": token} r = requests.get(api_url, headers = headers) result = pd.io.json.json_normalize(json.loads(r.text)["value"])
Best Regards,
Hi @bsmithUI,
We need the access token to authenticate the request and do it like below.
The problem is the token only survives 1 hour or more. It's hard to refresh the request. Maybe you can try the Python script with ADAL.
from adal import AuthenticationContext import requests import json import pandas as pd client_id = "a301********-98fe1dcde27e" # application id resource_uri = "https://analysis.windows.net/powerbi/api" user_name = "d*@microsoft.com" user_password = "****" auth_context = AuthenticationContext("https://login.microsoftonline.com/Your_tenant_name") token_response = auth_context.acquire_token_with_username_password(resource_uri, user_name, user_password, client_id) token = "Bearer " + token_response["accessToken"] api_url = "https://api.powerbi.com/v1.0/myorg/admin/groups" headers = {"Authorization": token} r = requests.get(api_url, headers = headers) result = pd.io.json.json_normalize(json.loads(r.text)["value"])
Best Regards,
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