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oauth

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Bjoern Sjut on 29 Mar 2016 19:24:59

Add oauth(2) as an option to authenticate for e.g. web.contents.

Administrator on 30 Oct 2018 01:34:04

This is enabled via Custom Connectors: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-query/startingtodevelopcustomconnectors

Comments (135)

Comments (135)

Phil Baker on 05 Jul 2020 23:33:43

RE: oauth

Ha ha ha, This is a laughable response. So now I am to either carry on using Basic Auth on my APIs or start telling my customers: "Here download and follow these installation instructions to install this weird file before you can use Power BI for what it was intended to do". That's even worse than asking a client to follow instructions on how to generate an API key and I've never seen that work out well.

We considered Custom Connectors but didn't want to wear the cost of providing application support to 5000 customers.

I mean, I had to roll my own Basic Auth provider when we started working onto dotNET Core just to support Power BI and Excel. Did you hear me?! I rolled my own Auth provider to a data API to support your product; that's insane!

Please reopen this idea, please implement OAuth as a connector. I fail to understand how this can be hard for you to do or what Microsoft's strategic value is in not providing it.