I pull data from a digital site via an API into Power BI for reporting. The API has an analytics endpoint for a web traffic report, but it is ONLY an aggregate report, as in it won't make one call and separate it into individual days. I can call (below) to show the traffic for any particular day. I would like to write a query to use this API call to generate a table where each row is the traffic for a day starting at 2022-05-15 until whatever the current day is. So a row for 05-15, 05-16, 05-18, until the current date.
Anyone have a suggestion?
https://api.somewhere.tv/analytics?type=traffic&from=2022-05-15&to=2022-05-15
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Here's one way to do it in the query editor. To see how it works, just create a blank query, open the Advanced Editor and replace the text there with the M code below.
let
StartDate = #date(2022,5,15),
EndDate = Date.From(DateTime.LocalNow()),
DateList = List.Dates(StartDate, Duration.TotalDays(EndDate - StartDate) + 1, #duration(1,0,0,0)),
Custom1 = List.Transform(DateList, each Date.ToText(_, "yyyy-MM-dd")),
#"Converted to Table" = Table.FromList(Custom1, Splitter.SplitByNothing(), null, null, ExtraValues.Error),
#"Renamed Columns" = Table.RenameColumns(#"Converted to Table",{{"Column1", "DateAsText"}}),
#"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Renamed Columns",{{"DateAsText", type text}}),
#"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "WebCall", each Web.Contents("https://api.somewhere.tv/analytics?type=traffic&from=" & [DateAsText] & "&to=" & [DateAsText]))
in
#"Added Custom"
Pat
Here's one way to do it in the query editor. To see how it works, just create a blank query, open the Advanced Editor and replace the text there with the M code below.
let
StartDate = #date(2022,5,15),
EndDate = Date.From(DateTime.LocalNow()),
DateList = List.Dates(StartDate, Duration.TotalDays(EndDate - StartDate) + 1, #duration(1,0,0,0)),
Custom1 = List.Transform(DateList, each Date.ToText(_, "yyyy-MM-dd")),
#"Converted to Table" = Table.FromList(Custom1, Splitter.SplitByNothing(), null, null, ExtraValues.Error),
#"Renamed Columns" = Table.RenameColumns(#"Converted to Table",{{"Column1", "DateAsText"}}),
#"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Renamed Columns",{{"DateAsText", type text}}),
#"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "WebCall", each Web.Contents("https://api.somewhere.tv/analytics?type=traffic&from=" & [DateAsText] & "&to=" & [DateAsText]))
in
#"Added Custom"
Pat
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