Problem Statement
Power BI offers multiple APIs to download reports in different formats. I have a project where the decoupling of semantic models and reports is frequent, and therefore while we can download the reports (which end-up live-connected in these instances), we do not have any way to download the model as PBIX except by manually doing so in the Power BI Service.
Ideal solution
While there are no APIs currently that specifically allow for downloading a semantic model as PBIX (the definition can be downloaded, not the data), it would be awesome if Microsoft made the Dataset equivalent of the Export Report In Group API
Alternatives I've considered
I am currently trying to reverse-engineer the process from a HAR file I captured downloading a model from the Power BI Service, which I could share if it helps. This is made complex by the fact that some of the REST calls use a numeric ID for the model and not its GUID, which comes from calls prior to this final URL example
Additional context
This especially applies to migration contexts where we need to get content from one tenant to another and keep a snapshot of the data.
