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sujeesh
Helper I
6 years ago
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How to connect Azure DevOps REST API in to power bi

Hi, I am new to this power bi. Can someone please tell me how to connect the Azure Devops REST API into the power bi. The API I am trying to connect is "https://vsrm.dev.azure.com/****/_apis/releas...
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    artemus
    6 years ago

    = VSTS.Contents(<your url>)

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    artemus
    6 years ago

    Oh, that isn't zip I think. It should be JSON. Just apply the line I gave in the previous post of the zip function. The zip function is useful if you want to download a bunch of files out of git. I did this myself once to do a git blame summary

     

    This is what your query should look like:

     

     

    let
    Source = VSTS.Contents("https://vsrm.dev.azure.com/fe-tfs/_apis/release/definitions?api-version=5.1"),
    #"Imported JSON" = Table.FromRecords(Json.Document(Source,65001)[value])
in
    #"Imported JSON"

     

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artemus
Microsoft Employee
6 years ago

If you need to unzip any files that you get use this function, the other ones I've seen online don't work with devops:

 

// Unzip
(ZIPFile) => 
let
    ushort = BinaryFormat.ByteOrder(BinaryFormat.UnsignedInteger16, ByteOrder.LittleEndian),
    uint = BinaryFormat.ByteOrder(BinaryFormat.UnsignedInteger32, ByteOrder.LittleEndian),
    EDOCfn = BinaryFormat.Record([
        ZipContent = BinaryFormat.Binary(Binary.Length(ZIPFile) - 22),
        Magic = uint,
        DiskNum = ushort,
        CDirectoryDiskId = ushort,
        CDirectoryRecordCountOnDisk = ushort,
        CDirectoryRecordCount = ushort,
        SizeOfCentralDirectory = uint,
        CentralDirectoryOffset = uint,
        CommendLength = ushort
    ]),
    EDOC = EDOCfn(ZIPFile),
    BeforeCentralDirectory = BinaryFormat.Binary(EDOC[CentralDirectoryOffset]),
    CentralDirectory = BinaryFormat.Length(BinaryFormat.Record(
        [
            ZipContent = BeforeCentralDirectory,
            Items = BinaryFormat.List(BinaryFormat.Record(
                [
                    Magic = uint,
                    CurrentVersion = ushort,
                    MinVersion = ushort,
                    Flags = ushort,
                    CompressionMethod = ushort,
                    FileModificationTime = ushort,
                    FileModificationDate = ushort,
                    CRC32 = uint,
                    BinarySize = uint,
                    FileSize   = uint,
                    FileInfo = BinaryFormat.Choice(
                    BinaryFormat.Record(
                        [
                            Len = ushort,
                            FieldsLen = ushort,
                            FileCommentLength = ushort,
                            Disk = ushort,
                            InternalFileAttr = ushort,
                            ExternalAttr = uint,
                            PosOfFileHeader = uint
                        ]),
                    (fileInfo) => BinaryFormat.Record(
                        [
                            FileName = BinaryFormat.Text(fileInfo[Len], TextEncoding.Ascii),
                            Fields = BinaryFormat.Binary(fileInfo[FieldsLen]),
                            FileComment = BinaryFormat.Text(fileInfo[FileCommentLength], TextEncoding.Ascii),
                            Disk = BinaryFormat.Transform(BinaryFormat.Null, each fileInfo[Disk]),
                            InternalFileAttr = BinaryFormat.Transform(BinaryFormat.Null, each fileInfo[Disk]),
                            ExternalAttr = BinaryFormat.Transform(BinaryFormat.Null, each fileInfo[InternalFileAttr]),
                            PosOfFileHeader = BinaryFormat.Transform(BinaryFormat.Null, each fileInfo[PosOfFileHeader])
                        ])
                    )
                ]), 
                EDOC[CDirectoryRecordCount]
            )
        ]), 
        EDOC[CentralDirectoryOffset] + EDOC[SizeOfCentralDirectory]),  
    Contents = List.Transform(
        CentralDirectory(ZIPFile)[Items],
            (cdEntry) => 
                let
                    ZipEntry = BinaryFormat.Record(
                    [
                        PreviousData = BinaryFormat.Binary(cdEntry[FileInfo][PosOfFileHeader]), 
                        Magic = uint,
                        ZipVersion = ushort,
                        ZipFlags = ushort,
                        CompressionMethod = ushort,
                        FileModificationTime = ushort,
                        FileModificationDate = ushort,
                        CRC32 = uint, 
                        BinarySize = uint,
                        FileSize   = uint,
                        FileName = BinaryFormat.Choice(
                            BinaryFormat.Record(
                                [
                                    Len = ushort,
                                    FieldsLen = ushort
                                ]),
                            (fileInfo) => BinaryFormat.Record(
                                [
                                    FileName = BinaryFormat.Text(fileInfo[Len], TextEncoding.Ascii),
                                    Fields = BinaryFormat.Binary(fileInfo[FieldsLen])
                                ]) 
                        ),
                        FileContent = BinaryFormat.Transform(
                            BinaryFormat.Binary(cdEntry[BinarySize]), 
                            each Binary.Decompress(_, Compression.Deflate)
                        )
                    ])(ZIPFile)
                in
                    [FileName=ZipEntry[FileName][FileName], Content=ZipEntry[FileContent]]
    )
in
    Contents