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6 years ago

How to authenticate with a custom API in a custom connector, and store tokens for future API request

I'm having a very hard time finding any examples for my use case which I find surprising. I have an endpoint like "www.myCompany/login" that takes a username, password, and user type as a json array and returns a token. That token is used in subsequent requests to other endpoints to retrieve data from the API. Are there any examples for this use case out there?

 

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  • SteveCampbell's avatar
    SteveCampbell
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    6 years ago

    Hopefully this pattern can help get you started. You would need to finish to extract the info you need and maybe add headers / body and probably some edits depending how your data is returned

    let
  token_header = [ 
#"Content-Type" = "application/json",
#"Accept" = "*/*"
],

  token_content = [
#"grant_type" = "client_credentials",
#"client_id" = #"clientid",
#"client_secret" = #"secret"
   ],

  AccessTokenCall = (Web.Contents("https://XXX.com/v1/oauth2/token", [Headers =   token_header, Content = Json.FromValue(token_content)])),
  AccessToken= Json.Document(Source, 1252),
  
   Headers=[
   #"Authorization" = "Bearer " & AccessToken ,
   #"Content-Type" = "application/json"
		 ],
    
	APICall = Web.Contents("https://XXX.com/v1/oauth2/token", [Headers =   Headers])