Power BI Export To File API gives 403 error

[Jayapriya]

Hi All,

       I am using the following code to get the responseof delay time for Export file using the Export To File API, while executing this code with valid token but i am getting 403 as response code.Any one suggest a solution to overcome this issue.

Code

public static void getSiteDetails(String accessToken) throws IOException {

URL url = new URL ("https://api.powerbi.com/v1.0/myorg/reports/57e739a8-7af7-4778-a5a1-a91976e5c7d8/ExportTo");

HttpURLConnection con = (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();

con.setRequestMethod("POST");

con.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json");

con.setRequestProperty("Accept", "application/json");

con.setRequestProperty("Authorization", "Bearer " + accessToken);

con.setDoOutput(true);

String jsonInputString = "{\"format\":\"PDF\" }";

try(OutputStream os = con.getOutputStream()) {

 byte[] input = jsonInputString.getBytes("utf-8");

 os.write(input, 0, input.length);

}

try(BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader( new InputStreamReader(con.getInputStream(), "utf-8"))) {
 StringBuilder response = new StringBuilder();

 String responseLine = null;

 while ((responseLine = br.readLine()) != null) {

 response.append(responseLine.trim());

 }
 System.out.println(response);
 
 }
}

[Anonymous]

Hi @Jayapriya 

Please check whether you have access to this url.

I found some same issues like yours and I hope they could help you.

Blog1:HTTP 403 Forbidden error on API call

Blog2: 403 error thrown by power bi 

Best Regards,

Rico Zhou

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[ibarrau]

Hi. The problem might be in permission. 403 means forbiden. Even if you get a bearer token, that token can't complete the action because it doesn't have permission. An example of that is using a regular user to try an admin request. Please be sure to delegate the permissions in the registered app in Azure of Power Bi Service. It looks like that registered app is missing something for exporting.

Hope this helps,