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jguieze
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Call a JSON POST API with parameters

Hi all,

 

I'm not a developper at all more than a newbie, just scripting some very simple things sometimes.

As I have time right now I try to play with API of my company Contact Center software to generate some reports.

 

I succeed to call API from Postman and import JSON into Powerquery now I'd like PowerQuery to directly call the API. I tried a lot of different things but till now I did not succeed.

 

Maybe someone coudl help me "translate" this cURL into M language ?

curl --location --request POST 'https://website.domain/api/call/in/histories' \
--header 'Authorization: Basic authkey \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
    "startDate": "2020-03-01 00:00:00",
    "endDate": "2020-03-24 23:59:59"
}'

 

Thans a lot for your help

Jérôme

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Anonymous
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I will be able to answer to this question since I had a similiar requirement and i was able to connect pull data successfully.

scripts you need to execute:

let

body = Json.Document("{
""startDate"": ""2020-03-01 00:00:00"",
""endDate"": ""2020-03-24 23:59:59""
}"),
response = Web.Contents("https://website.domain/api/call/in/histories", [Headers=[#"X-API-KEY"="paste your x-api-key here", #"Content-Type"="application/json", Cookie="paste your cookie here it is optional if not available remove this"],Content=Json.FromValue(body)]),
jsonResponse = Json.Document(response),
records = jsonResponse[records]
in
records

 

Hope this helps. Please accept it as a solution if it helped. If not provide your queries if will try to help you solve it

ale-hd
Helper I
Helper I

Hi Jerome, I am having the same identical issue than yours, did you solve it? If yes can you tell me how? Regards, Alessandro

blopez11
Super User
Super User

I think this post may be able to help you with what you are trying to accomplish: https://eriksvensen.wordpress.com/2014/09/15/specifying-json-query-in-power-query-example-statistics...

 

Good luck,

I've already read this post but I'll drill a little more. 

 

Thanks,

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