Authentication issues when using Bing Maps REST API

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

I am using the following web source:

http://dev.virtualearth.net/REST/v1/Locations/%address1%?o=xml&key={mykey}

I am able to authenticate myself using mykey and get the data I need, however, once I hit save and apply I get this error. I have tried multiple different ways to authenticate myself but it won't accept anything.

[v-shex-msft]

Hi @Anonymous ,

It seems like this api not support anonymous credentials, please use organization account to instead or invoke 'login' function before other REST API function.

Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng

[Anonymous]

This API does not accept organizational logins

[v-shex-msft]

HI @Anonymous ,

You can try to modify your query and enable RelativePath Parameter in web.connector function to use anonymous mode to authorization with root path:

Web.Contents("http://dev.virtualearth.net", [Headers=[#"key"=mykey], RelativePath="/REST/v1/Locations/address"])

Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng

[diegolruiz]

I have tried the suggestion, I have tried calling https, and still none of the authentication methods work. It is quite frustrating since it works fine in PBI Desktop, but the moment you want to refresh the data model via PBI Service, it requests to authenticate the data source and that seems to be impossible.