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Hey,
is there anyone who successfully connected Power BI with Google My Business API?
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks.
@Anonymous
You may check the the discussion in this post: https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Power-Query/Google-My-Business-Reviews-API/td-p/445276
Regards
Paul
Hey,
thanks for reply. According to the post you provided, i tried this query:
let
authKey = "Basic " & Binary.ToText(Text.ToBinary("<client_id>:<client_secret>"),0),
url = "https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token",
GetJson = Web.Contents(url,
[
Headers = [#"Authorization"=authKey,
#"Content-Type"="application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8"],
Content = Text.ToBinary("grant_type=client_credentials")
]
),
FormatAsJson = Json.Document(GetJson),
AccessToken = FormatAsJson[access_token],
AccessTokenHeader = "bearer " & AccessToken,
GetJsonQuery = Web.Contents("https://mybusiness.googleapis.com/v4/XXXXXXXXXXXXX",
[
Headers = [#"Authorization"=AccessTokenHeader]
]
),
FormatAsJsonQuery = Json.Document(GetJsonQuery),
NavigateToStatuses = FormatAsJsonQuery[statuses],
TableFromList = Table.FromList(NavigateToStatuses, Splitter.SplitByNothing(), null, null, ExtraValues.Error),
ExpandColumn = Table.ExpandRecordColumn(TableFromList, "Column1", {"metadata", "created_at", "id", "id_str", "text", "source", "truncated", "in_reply_to_status_id", "in_reply_to_status_id_str", "in_reply_to_user_id", "in_reply_to_user_id_str", "in_reply_to_screen_name", "user", "geo", "coordinates", "place", "contributors", "is_quote_status", "retweet_count", "favorite_count", "entities", "favorited", "retweeted", "lang", "possibly_sensitive", "quoted_status_id", "quoted_status_id_str", "quoted_status"}, {"Column1.metadata", "Column1.created_at", "Column1.id", "Column1.id_str", "Column1.text", "Column1.source", "Column1.truncated", "Column1.in_reply_to_status_id", "Column1.in_reply_to_status_id_str", "Column1.in_reply_to_user_id", "Column1.in_reply_to_user_id_str", "Column1.in_reply_to_screen_name", "Column1.user", "Column1.geo", "Column1.coordinates", "Column1.place", "Column1.contributors", "Column1.is_quote_status", "Column1.retweet_count", "Column1.favorite_count", "Column1.entities", "Column1.favorited", "Column1.retweeted", "Column1.lang", "Column1.possibly_sensitive", "Column1.quoted_status_id", "Column1.quoted_status_id_str", "Column1.quoted_status"})
in
ExpandColumn
I keep getting this error:
DataSource.Error: Web.Contents failed to get contents from 'https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token' (400): Bad Request
Details:
DataSourceKind=Web
DataSourcePath=https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token
Url=https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token
Connect to GMB API with OAuth 2.0. Playground and Postman works correctly, but i couldn't manage to connect with Power Bi.
Is there something missing in the query?
Thanks.
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