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Anonymous
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connect to a web api from power BI

Hi Community

I am trying to connect to a web api via PBI desktop.

I have been provided with the details of the api, but I am unable to figure out how to translate that into PBI to get my results

below are the details that I need to fetch

 

GET /0/facebook/profiles

HTTPS Host: api.mywebsite.com

Authorization: Basic wxxXZcCRpbjp5c4V1UqVHgdtwHTF

Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8

 

So far, I am using web connector, in URL I am putting https:\\api.mywebsite.com

then,

in add header I am giving autorization code, and add header content type =application/json

 

But I am not sure where to provide the first line ie GET /0/facebook/profiles

 

 

any help would be highly appriciated. any directions or links to material or any quick hints.

regards

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Greg_Deckler
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If I am reading that correctly, you need to connect to:

 

https://api.mywebsite.com/0/facebook/profiles

 

In other words, you should be getting /0/facebook/profiles from the host api.mywebsites.com.


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Greg_Deckler
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If I am reading that correctly, you need to connect to:

 

https://api.mywebsite.com/0/facebook/profiles

 

In other words, you should be getting /0/facebook/profiles from the host api.mywebsites.com.


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Anonymous
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Awesome, Thanks. 

If I also need to fetch something specific, say I am using following request

Let

Source = Json.Document(Web.Contents("https://api.mywebsite.com/facebook/profiles",
[Headers=[Authorization="Basic TWpjNekV5WHpNNVpEQTBZMlZpWkRJNE9EY3habVU1WdRellqRTE6NDRmMjk1NTM3ZTVhZmENTlmNDg0Nkjdsoifuwenr",
#"Content-Type"="application/json; charset=utf-8"]],

In 

Source

 

 OutPUT:

id, name, count, city

 

if I want to fetch data ony for a specific id, say id number 100 & city = Sydney, how would I ammend the query

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