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How to connect google sheet to Power BI
2023 update - the method below is no longer required, the native connector to Google Sheets is generally available. This supports Google authentication, so the data no longer needs to be public.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-query/connectors/google-sheets
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The easiest way is to Get Data / From Web, then enter the URL to your google sheet, with "&output=xls" on the end, e.g.
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=r1hlZB_n1rpXTij11Kw7lTQ&output=xls
PBI then analyses the resulting Excel file, showing the tabs as tables , which you can edit and manipulate.
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Community ChampionHi dosansil and Anonymous:
I made a stupid mistake here, so the solution doesn't work unfortunately: I didn't recognize that the sheet I was referrig to was still published to web. So despite me restricting the access in the "share"-area, there was still the published web-option which accepted my credentials. But the problem here is, that I actually didn't need credentials, as the anonymus connection would have worked as well.
I'm very sorry to have wasted your time here!! (Will edit/delete my orignal post so that others will not get fooled as well)