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Anonymous
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Power BI REST API

Hi,

 

I am trying to automate the publishing of a pbix file held locally on my desktop to the online PBI service, through a C# script. Within the organisation, other people are then accessing the report direct from the online PBI service.

 

Looking into it, I see this can be achieved via the power bi api. However, when looking at the Power BI rest api documents it is saying that I need to register an application in order to get the client id. Is this the case even if I just want to automate the refresh & publish to the service?

 

Thank you in advance for your help!

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Jayendran
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Hi @Anonymous ,

 

Yes you are correct in order to call the PowerBI REST API you need the proper Autentication (OAuth=>Bearer token ) using the client id is the way to call any REST API including refresh & Publish to the service.

 

Refer this Code sample which will helps you to achieve your Automation through C#.

See my article PowerBI - CICD using Azure DevOps

 

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Jayendran
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Solution Sage

Hi @Anonymous ,

 

Yes you are correct in order to call the PowerBI REST API you need the proper Autentication (OAuth=>Bearer token ) using the client id is the way to call any REST API including refresh & Publish to the service.

 

Refer this Code sample which will helps you to achieve your Automation through C#.

See my article PowerBI - CICD using Azure DevOps

 

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