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Dropbox API v2, gateway credential error
- Anonymous9 years ago
Below is the correct answer using API v1 and OAUTH1 from user Masplin (Mike), not me.
But I tried this and it worked perfectly!
I have successful connected my desktop model to an anonnymous dropbox link and it refreshes absolutely fine on PBI servce. OneDrive is an absolute disaster as a cloud storage system, it works for Power bI but is garbagge for anything else.
The issue I have is where my query is doing a folder query so I need ot try Imke solution
For example I have this file Inputs.xlsx which sits in Dropbox\DataModels\SourceFiles.
firstly create a blank query to set the path to the file
DropboxSourcePath is
let
Source = "https://api-content.dropbox.com/1/files/auto/DataModel/SourceFiles/"
in
SourceSecondly go onto dropbox online and into developer section as Imke described ot create an app and get a token. In my case I have tried her folder app so I just got a token for the whole of dropbox.
Token is
let
Source = "?access_token=lkPfa4vOd-AAAAAAAAAAKjmGh93HWPeYFfffdfffdfdggf-CY0LSTVss5JF53HOGK46xxkWsQzhj-"
in
SourceThen your query becomes. Note now web.contents instead of file.contents and if you have any path its "/" not "\"
let
Source = Excel.Workbook(Web.Contents(DropboxSourcePath & "Inputs.xlsx" & Token), null, true),
Seasonality_Table = Source{[Item="Seasonality",Kind="Table"]}[Data],
#"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Seasonality_Table,{{"Month No", Int64.Type}, {"Month", type text}, {"Car Count Seasonality", type number}, {"GTV Seasonality", type number}})
in
#"Changed Type"So I can refresh all conenctions on desktop and when I publish to PBI Service I see under credential web for each of these dropbox links. Edit conenction and chose annonymous.
the solution code (below) from the other post works only on PBI Desktop.
once it is published, it gets credential error on PBI Service.
is there any workaround to make it work and refresh on PBI Service?
let
Source = Excel.Workbook(Web.Contents("https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/download", [Headers=[Authorization="Bearer mytoken", #"Dropbox-API-Arg"="{""path"": ""/myfolder/myfile.xlsx""}"]]), null, true)
in
#"Source"
Anyone found a solution to this?