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ALean
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Simple API authenticated with bearer token not working in Power BI, but is in Postman

I wish to consume a simple API which is only authenticated with a bearer token.

This works perfectly when done in Postman.

 

I cannot figure out why Power BI cannot authenticate it.
Anonymous: "We couldn't authenticate with the credentials provided. Please try again"
Web API: "A web API key can only be specified when a web API key name is provided."


_PBI_Obscured_API.png

 Figure: API Url with Authoirzation token reflecting the working version in Postman

 

I have also attempted to do this using the advanced editor from a blank query and still cannot authenticate.

 

let
     apiUrl = "https://api.**********/2.0/items",
     options = [Headers=[#"Authorization"="Bearer *************************************************"]],
     result = Web.Contents(apiUrl , options)
in
     result

 

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v-yuezhe-msft
Employee
Employee

@ALean,

Please check the following similar blog about how to connect to web API with bearer token.

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

Regards,
Lydia

Community Support Team _ Lydia Zhang
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Thanks for the link  v-yuezhe-msft.
That didn't work though.

The code on that blog is just a more complicated version of what I'm doing.
Since my bearer token is static, I don't need to request it dynamically everytime.
That blog outlines it as fundamentally being "table = Web.Contents(apiUrl , options)"

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