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Bhoobala_P
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9 years ago
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Connectivity to third party data sources

Dear Team, need your help on the following.   Does Power BI connect natively to: Google Drive / Sheets Facebook for Business Ads Manager Double Click If there is direct connectivity possible,...
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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Hi Bhoobala_P,

    Firstly, it is not possible to use the sharable link (without output=xls) to connect with Power BI. If you worry about the security issue,  you may need to use Google's oAuth2 API, however, there are no official articles or blogs stating  this method. An idea about connecting to Google sheets in Power BI has been submitted in this link, please vote it up.

    Secondly, I am afraid that you are not able to directly connect to Facebook Ad Manager in Power BI,  there is also an idea about adding connectivity for Facebook Ad Manager, please vote it up.

    Thanks,
    Lydia Zhang

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Anonymous
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9 years ago

Hi Bhoobala_P,

Firstly, it is not possible to use the sharable link (without output=xls) to connect with Power BI. If you worry about the security issue,  you may need to use Google's oAuth2 API, however, there are no official articles or blogs stating  this method. An idea about connecting to Google sheets in Power BI has been submitted in this link, please vote it up.

Secondly, I am afraid that you are not able to directly connect to Facebook Ad Manager in Power BI,  there is also an idea about adding connectivity for Facebook Ad Manager, please vote it up.

Thanks,
Lydia Zhang

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ReportMaster
Post Partisan
2 years ago

Hello. Power BI does not connect natively to any of those sources. As a workaround, you can consider connecting directly to those sources through an external connector. I use windsor.ai to connect all those sources directly to PBI