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markt
Regular Visitor
11 years ago

Get Data from FTP site

Has anyone used PowerBI to Get Data from an FTP site?  I basically just need to login and get a listing of files in the folders.  I have a C# program that can do this, but I doubt Power BI can call a...
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andre
Memorable Member
11 years ago

I just tried it against a public FTP site (ftp://ftp.2600.com/) and although I was able to see the folder structure and select the file, the filed was cashed locally first and loaded in my Power Query.  So my guess that refresh from the FTP site would not work.

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karolis_devyzis
Regular Visitor
9 years ago

Hi, Andre,

 

Could you please help me? I am trying to connect to your named ftp adress, but I get this message "Details: "Web.Contents failed to get contents from 'ftp://ftp.2600.com/' (0): "

 

I am connecting through web as a source. 

 

Thanks, 

Karolis