Connecting to Yahoo via Yahoo ID login - Anyone have success with Fantasy Sports?

[dpancratz]

I'm sure there are much higher priority questions, but I thought I'd ask the community... 🙂 

I'm trying to practice my power bi skills and experiment a bit in a fun, non-work scenario: my fantasy baseball league. I've had some success pulling data in from public sites, but not yet from my private yahoo league. 

I'm trying to connect to pull data (stats, standings, etc) from my private league to model along with other public data. 

The trouble I encounter is that my yahoo credentials don't seem to connect under the "Basic" permissions option for logging-in to my account and retreiving the data. 

I know some of the public Yahoo Finance data has changed in recent years, making it more difficult to pull from the web. Has anyone else tried to login to a private fantasy sports league on yahoo? Better yet, has anyone had any success? 

[v-yuezhe-msft]

@dpancratz,

What error message do you get in Power BI Desktop? I would recommend you review the example in the blog below to connect to Yahoo fantasy sports API with Power Query.

https://chris.koester.io/index.php/2015/07/16/get-data-from-twitter-api-with-power-query/

For more details about Yahoo fantasy sports API , see https://developer.yahoo.com/fantasysports/guide/.

Regards,
Lydia

[dpancratz]

And before you ask... yes, i'm sure that I'm using my correct credentials. 🙂