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sboulanger1986
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API call for each record of another API call

Hi everyone,

 

I'm working with an API that let me 

  1. Retrieve all contacts within a list.
  2. Retrieve all email messages for a specific contact.

I need to extract all email messages for all the contacts identified in my first API call. The first call will provide me with the contact ID I need for the second call. It involved I'll need to make a call for each record returned in the first place. 

 

Is there a way I can do this in Power Query and does it make sense in terms of performance? 

 

Regards

 

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Yes.  Add a custom column in your first query and do Web.Contents("your url" & [ColumnFromFirstWebCall]), where you concatenate the column with the rest of your url.

 

Pat

 





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mahoneypat
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Performance will depend on how many there are but it can be done within the query editor.  Just make your first API call, expand that to a table and transform as needed, and then add a custom column that uses the contact column in the second API call fo reach row.

 

Pat

 





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Hi Pat,

 

Thank you for your answer. I must say I'm still new to Power Query and I'm not sure how to dot it. Should I add custom column in the first query and then add the second API call in that column? 

Yes.  Add a custom column in your first query and do Web.Contents("your url" & [ColumnFromFirstWebCall]), where you concatenate the column with the rest of your url.

 

Pat

 





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