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mwade_cte1926
Advocate II
4 years ago
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Power BI REST API "Try-It" feature GONE?

Question to the community, is the Try-It feature now gone on Power BI REST API documentation page?  
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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    4 years ago

    Hi mwade_cte1926 ，

     

    "Try It" feature be disabled on every pages in PBI REST API has been confirmed as an active known issue. 

     

    A temporary alternative solution is to use postman.

    Get access token first, then you can call Power BI Rest API in postman by this token.

    For reference: Power BI REST API using postman - generate embed token.

    I will keep an eye on this case and update if there are new developments.

    And  I will mark my reply as the answer for more people to see this message.

     

    Best Regards,
    Rico Zhou

     

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

CAS-Tom's avatar
CAS-Tom
Frequent Visitor
4 years ago

It disappeared for me too. I was relying on this "Try" feature to fetch my Auth Token so that my script can fetch API records. Does anyone know of an alternate way to fetch this Auth Token??

pvuppala's avatar
pvuppala
Helper V
4 years ago

You can still get call the API via PowerShell as an example below:

 

$headers = New-Object "System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary[[String],[String]]"
Login-PowerBIServiceAccount
$headers = Get-PowerBIAccessToken
$headers.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

$restUrl = 'https://api.powerbi.com/v1.0/myorg/admin/groups/' + $ID + "/users"
$response = Invoke-RestMethod $restUrl -Method 'GET' -Headers $headers -ErrorAction Stop

 

I hope they fix this soon as sometimes I don't need to write a script for a quick ad-hoc testing.