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amarbl
New member | Level 2
8 years ago

Unable to connect Power BI Desktop with Dropbox

Hi,   I have an excel spreadsheet in Dropbox that I would like to load in the Power BI   Desktop. I am unable to connect Power BI Desktop with Dropbox.   This is what I did-   I created an ap...
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shankar267
New member | Level 2
4 years ago

I have an excel spreadsheet in Dropbox that I would like to load in the Power Bi Desktop. I am not able to connect Power BI Desktop with Dropbox.

This is what I did-

I created an app in Dropbox and then generated an app token that has access to all the folders in Dropbox.

Then I used the Web Connector in the Power BI Desktop with the v2 API URL

URL: https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/download

HTTP Header

Authorization : Bearer api_token

Dropbox-API-Arg : {\"path\": \"/folder/file.xslx\"}"

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Greg-DB
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4 years ago

shankar267 Can you elaborate on what you mean when you say you are "not able to connect Power BI Desktop with Dropbox"? What error or unexpected output do you get from the Dropbox API?

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