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Helper I
Helper I

oAuth and Power Query

I need to connect to external web API. This API uses a custom oAuth 2.0 verification process.

Now I would need to do the exact same steps using power query (M)/ Power BI.

 

I have managed successfully connect to web API using Postman so I can so you example what that looks like.

curl -X POST \ 'https://api-test.XXX.com/api/oauth/authz?response_type=code&client_id=TestClient&state=100&username=test&password=XXX&company=12345&redirect_uri=redirect-uri-placeholder' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \

In Power Query I used following code

let
    Source = Value.Metadata(Web.Contents("https://api-test.XXX.com/api/oauth/authz?response_type=code&client_id=TestClient&state=100&username=test&password=XXX&company=12345&redirect_uri=redirect-uri-placeholder", [Headers=[#"Content-Type"="application/x-www-form-urlencoded"]]))
in
    Source

This gives me Response.Status 405 error.

 

In order to get this to work in Postman I had to disable "Automatically follow redirects". Is there a similiar problem with Power Query?

 

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Greg_Deckler
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I don't know if that option exists in M. You could always also try R.



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