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ALean
7 years agoFrequent Visitor
Simple API authenticated with bearer token not working in Power BI, but is in Postman
I wish to consume a simple API which is only authenticated with a bearer token. This works perfectly when done in Postman. I cannot figure out why Power BI cannot authenticate it. Anonymous: "W...
Anonymous
7 years agoNot applicable
ALean,
Please check the following similar blog about how to connect to web API with bearer token.
https://chris.koester.io/index.php/2015/07/16/get-data-from-twitter-api-with-power-query/
Regards,
Lydia
ALean
7 years agoFrequent Visitor
Thanks for the link v-yuezhe-msft.
That didn't work though.
The code on that blog is just a more complicated version of what I'm doing.
Since my bearer token is static, I don't need to request it dynamically everytime.
That blog outlines it as fundamentally being "table = Web.Contents(apiUrl , options)"