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sequeiraelton
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9 years ago

Cannot sign in with Anonymous Authentication for a Web API datasource

Hi,   I have been able to successfully connect and pull data through a Web API with anonymous authentication in Power BI desktop. However, after publishing it I cannot configure a scheduled refresh...
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sequeiraelton
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9 years ago

Thank you v-ljerr-msft. I had raised an issue with the product team and I got the same response. On their recommendation I have gone ahead and submitted an improvement request. Depending on the number of votes, they will consider it for a fix/enhancement. I hope this either gains enough votes quickly or if they can expedite this request without waiting for votes to accumulate because the behaviour of the Web API is not uncommon. Here is the link to the improvement request I submitted.

https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/19202755-bypass-test-connection-ignore-failure-for-web-sour

 

 

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nict
New Member
7 years ago

You can make it work with the relative path option provided the base URL returns good data without authentication. See this link for info:

 

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Service/Anonymous-access/td-p/19136

 

 

Basically, take your root URL, and do a GET call in curl or a web browser, if you get back data then you should be fine. It worked for me, I have REST API data now auto refreshing using this method and pagination.