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JohnSwid
New Member
9 years ago

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...
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ImkeF
Community Champion
9 years ago

Hi guys,

thanks for these helpful different solutions! I've picked up some code bits from this thread and created a function that makes it pretty easy to grab files from a dropbox-folder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEVRO-Zc7pg

 

This should be helpful for folks who are not so tech-savy and might stumble across this post.

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Anonymous
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9 years ago

Thanks a lot for your code Imke!
But would you have a compact version of it? without the function parameters...

Because your code is a function, the Gateway does not work. I get credential errors.

 

I am loking for just the direct link, something like the first comment on this idea.

But I couldn´t make it work this example in the comments...
https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/6663925-dropbox (opens in new tab)