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Connecting to data source hosted on Dropbox
Hello PowerBI-Ites, Has anyone had any luck connecting to Dropbox as a data source. Couldn't find many articles on this topic. Here's one article that had a solution we couldn't get to work: h...
While researching this topic, I noticed that all the examples given appear to be for the Dropbox v1 API, which has been deprecated and will be turned off in a few months (June 2017):
https://blogs.dropbox.com/developers/2016/06/api-v1-deprecated/
The v2 API looks much more complex - there doesnt appear to be any direct equivalent for the method suggested above (single HTTPS call with an API Key). The authentication requirements now seem more complex:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/auth-types#user
It's stumped me for now - has anyone got this working?
I agree with mike_honey - cant seem to get it working.
Any tips on connecting into the dropbox files would be great.