Aug 3, 2021 · I am trying to connect Power BI to a web api using this URL (https://api.10000ft.com/api/v1/), but when I enter the API key, I get this message: A web API key can only be specified when a web API key name is provided.

Mar 24, 2025 · Web API: Select this method if the web resource that you're connecting to uses an API Key for authentication purposes. Organizational account: Select this authentication method if the web page requires organizational account credentials.

Aug 12, 2019 · Do not try to add API on the WEB API section. Select the BASIC authentication method and there you have to give the username and password. here, the username is the account username where you created the API key. And Password is …

Nov 28, 2024 · Method 1: Using the Web Data Connector The simplest way to connect Power BI to a REST API is by using the Web data connector, which is available in both Power BI Desktop and Power BI Service.

Mar 11, 2022 · I am trying to connect to a Web API in Power BI Desktop. The request requires token authentication with an "api_key" parameter. I continue to get the error that an API key name must be specified in order to provide an API key, but I cannot find where to specify an API key name. I have already tried the following and none have worked:

Dec 8, 2023 · Ensure that you correctly include both the API key and the API key name in your request. For Azure API Management, the header name for the API key is often "Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key", but you should verify the exact name required by your specific API.

Aug 29, 2022 · According to that jquery call, you need to set the API Key Name to "APIToken" in the options for Web.Contents. The other parts of the data: argument can go on the URI as part of the query string.

This page explains how to configure and use the SysTrack Power BI Connector, including API key authentication. IMPORTANT: The steps on this page explain how to use the API key method of authenticating as you configure the connector. It is highly recommended that you switch to using these API keys to authenticate.

Nov 25, 2024 · tl;dr when working with APIs in Power Query, we use couple of authentication methods: Anonymous, API Key, Bearer Token, Basic, OAuth 2.0. Most of these require Authentication header in Web.Contents () function. You will learn about all of these five methods.

Feb 13, 2020 · Full simplified example below: let accesstoken = "token " & #"API", url=Text.Combine({#"URL", "/api/tokens/authenticate"}), Source = Json.Document( Web.Contents(url, [ Headers = [#"Authorization" = accesstoken], Content = Text.ToBinary("grant_type=client_credentials") ])) in Source