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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...
JohnSwid You need to register for Dropbox developer account and generate access token. Then use URL provided as below to connect. FILE PATH is folder/filename.extension. When you register app for access token choose full permission and it should work.
https://api-content.dropbox.com/1/files/[FILE PATH]?access_token=[ACCESS TOKEN]
https://api-content.dropbox.com/1/files/abc/myfile.txt?access_token=12345 where abc is folder, myfile is file and 12345 is access token.