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Anonymous
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5 years ago

Power BI Live Steam in Service from Web

Hi, 

I am new to Power BI and have created few reports for my company, now I am struggling with live steaming data from my companies website to my power bi dashboard(service), I have tried steaming dataset from service in different ways to get data from website to power bi report live but I have failed.

 

Can anyone of you please help me getting data from website to my powerbi service.

 

For example I would like to see the world population in my service from (https://www.worldometers.info/) website. should updated as and when the data in website updateds.

 

Any help is greatly appriciated.

 

Regards,

Syed

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  • lbendlin's avatar
    lbendlin
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    5 years ago

    "should updated as and when the data in website updateds."

     

    How are you planning to do that?  

    There are two theoretical concepts for this, one is event triggers and the other is polling. 

    Event triggers means the data source tells you that it was updated. That could be an email, or a web call.

    Polling means that you ask the datasource if it has been updated. And then you ask again, and again etc.

     

    Now event triggers sound really nice and elegant. But in the real world there is a huge problem of cui bono.  That means that pretty much any automation solution (event the ones that claim to support event triggers) is based on plain old polling.

     

    You will want to look into Power Automate.  It has schedulers, web content pullers, and Power BI Streaming Dataset row pushers.  With that you can create your own flow to achieve what you describe.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
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    5 years ago

    Hi Anonymous 

    I think you may refer to this blog for more details: Real-time streaming in Power BI

    Or you can try to build a report by web connection in desktop and publish your report to service.

    Then you can refresh your value by refresh your report.

     

    Best Regards,

    Rico Zhou

     

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