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Can't Refresh without Gateway with Web API Source (new issue)
Hi all, I received word from Microsoft (Power BI) Support with more information. I thought it was valuable to share it with you::
We have got an update from our Product Engineering team:
As we see that the User is using https and http urls to build the report. We checked with our SME they confirmed that, Power BI Service requires https urls for Web data sources to refresh. For non-secured urls (http), it's required to go through the gateway. By design.
So an anonymous API feed using "http" will not allow for a scheduled refresh in the online Power BI service without a gateway. It needs to be an https one.
Krgds,
Bart
When I click on the link it does not work.
What happens when you do this in PBI Desktop? Does it work.
Thanks for the check. Yes, in Desktop ik works perfectly. I see that the link also picks up the last two brackets and quotes of the M-code, which do not belong to the URL. Please use this 'pure' link for the check (M code as a whole works incl the brackets/quotes):
http://161.35.43.125:8080/metrics/instagram/dates/2020-08-01/2020-08-02
Krgds,
Bart