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masplin
Impactful Individual
8 years ago

Dropbox API v2, as API1 has been turned off

Hi   I have been linking severla single files stored on dropbox using API! whiuch seems to have bene disabled last night. I think there are a lot of us in the same boat.  Can someone say what the...
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Anonymous
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8 years ago

masplin,

Do mask sensitive data before uploading scripts or screenshots.

In your scenario, add a new blank query in Power BI Desktop, then paste the following code into the Advanced Editor of your query.

let
    Source = Excel.Workbook(Web.Contents("https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/download", [Headers=[Authorization="Bearer <your access token>", #"Dropbox-API-Arg"="{""path"": ""/folder/path/filename.xlsx""}"]]), null, true)
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And I would commend you firstly test that if your API returns correct result in DropBox API Explorer.


Regards,
Lydia

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masplin
Impactful Individual
8 years ago

Hi Lydia

 

I'm obviously doing somethnig stupid.  the path to my file is U:\Dropbox\DataModel\SourceFiles\Input.xlsx

 

In API explorer I got this

 

 

Can you tell me where i've gone wrong please?

 

Thanks

Mike

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    granthworth
    Kudo Kingpin
    8 years ago

    Hey masplin

     

    I am still working on getting ours resolved also. I have not gotten around the issue completely yet but I was able to get at least a portion of Lydia's fix to work. See below for my info. Hope this helps.

     

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      masplin
      Impactful Individual
      8 years ago

      let an "s" of the file name Duh!!!!

       

      Brilliant

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        masplin
        Impactful Individual
        8 years ago

        Ok so I got a repsonse from the API explorer uses this token and path, and can download the file however i then put this code in Power Query and get an error "unable to conenct to the remote server"? Any idea?

         

        let
    Source = Excel.Workbook(Web.Contents("https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/download", [Headers=[Authorization="Bearer lkPfa4vOd-AAAAAAAAAAXpFuGV2UKJk0D3WGQtPjNeIeZNwdopvcaSs_y3gguRYY", #"Dropbox-API-Arg"="{""path"": ""/DataModel/SourceFiles/Inputs.xlsx""}"]]), null, true)
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