"We couldn't authenticate with the credentials provided" - yet same credentials work with IE, Chrome

[BeeEyeNoob]

- Attempting to pull HTML/XML data from a local IP but PBI will not accept the credentials even though all other web browsers will accept the credentials.

- The local IP when visted from a browser will prompt for basic auth like so:

-But when I attempt to Get Data from Web on PBI, the credentials are not accepted, like so:

-I even saved the html source from a browser and PBI will handle all the tables just fine - its just the auth thats the issue here.

Thanks in advance for your help

[v-yuezhe-msft]

@BeeEyeNoob,

I am not clear about the Local IP you refer to, could you please describe more details about the data source?

Generally, the web connector in Power BI Desktop is used to connect to online web page as described in this article, or connect to REST API.

Regards,
Lydia

[BeeEyeNoob]

@v-yuezhe-msft Thank you for chiming in.

Here is the source code of the page I am attempting to retrive with PBI:

https://pastebin.com/BpkCkGp5

If one saves this as an html file, PBI has no problem fetching the tables. 

The issue is getting past the authentication in PBI:

[v-yuezhe-msft]

@BeeEyeNoob,

I would recommend you contact pastebin support to check how to call its api to retrieve data and if its api supports basic auth. Then connect to the page in Power BI Desktop. There are some samples for your reference.

https://chris.koester.io/index.php/2015/07/16/get-data-from-twitter-api-with-power-query/
http://angryanalyticsblog.azurewebsites.net/index.php/2016/05/16/api-strategies-with-power-bi/

Regards,
Lydia

[BeeEyeNoob]

@v-yuezhe-msft pastebin is not the source. Since this forum has a maximum char length of 2000, I dumped the source code to pastebin soley for your review.

[v-yuezhe-msft]

@BeeEyeNoob,

Which website or webpage do your source code come from?

Regards,
Lydia

[BeeEyeNoob]

@v-yuezhe-msft from a bitcoin miner running locally, the miner provides an http url that one can view current mining stats etc...

[v-yuezhe-msft]

@BeeEyeNoob,

I am not familiar about your data source, does the API of your source support basic authentication? Does the URL start with http or https?

Regards,
Lydia

[Anonymous]

When you say you are doing this for a 'Local IP' and you are doing this from your Browser.  Would you mean that you have been unsuccessful using the 'Get Data' button on the Power BI Service, but you are able to connect fine when using the Power BI Desktop?

If so, my first thought is that if you are using a Local IP, is that IP within your network?  If that is the case, how are you expecting the Power BI Service, which exists on Microsofts Cloud, to connect into your network and resolve that address?

[BeeEyeNoob]

I am using only PBI Desktop, sorry for the confusion there.

Yes - the local IP is within my network, but can also be accessible from outside my LAN through a NAT.

I have no intension (as of now) to use PBI Service for this.