connecting to Power BI API using non-interactive authentication

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Coding in C#. I'm following this guide:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/resource-group-authenticate-service-principal/#authenticate-service-principal-with-password---powershell%E2%80%8C%E2%80%8B

But it is not working and it is not Power BI specific so I'm not sure exactly how to apply it to the Power BI API.

In my attempt to connect to Power BI I am getting a 403 Forbidden response.

        var authenticationContext = new AuthenticationContext("https://login.windows.net/" + Properties.Settings.Default.TenantID);
        var credential = new ClientCredential(clientId: Properties.Settings.Default.ClientID, clientSecret: Properties.Settings.Default.ClientSecretKey);
        var result = authenticationContext.AcquireToken(resource: "https://management.core.windows.net/", clientCredential: credential);

        if (result == null)
        {
            throw new InvalidOperationException("Failed to obtain the JWT token");
        }

        string accessToken = result.AccessToken;


        string responseContent = string.Empty;

        //The resource Uri to the Power BI REST API resource
        string datasetsUri = "https://api.powerbi.com/v1.0/myorg/datasets";

        //Configure datasets request
        System.Net.WebRequest request = System.Net.WebRequest.Create(datasetsUri) as System.Net.HttpWebRequest;
        request.Timeout = 20000;
        request.Method = "GET";
        request.ContentLength = 0;
        request.Headers.Add("Authorization", String.Format("Bearer {0}", accessToken));

        try
        {

            //Get datasets response from request.GetResponse()
            using (var response = request.GetResponse() as System.Net.HttpWebResponse)
            {
                //Get reader from response stream
                using (var reader = new System.IO.StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()))
                {
                    responseContent = reader.ReadToEnd();

                    //Deserialize JSON string
                    //JavaScriptSerializer class is in System.Web.Script.Serialization
                    JavaScriptSerializer json = new JavaScriptSerializer();
                    Datasets datasets = (Datasets)json.Deserialize(responseContent, typeof(Datasets));

                    resultsTextbox.Text = string.Empty;
                    //Get each Dataset from 
                    foreach (dataset ds in datasets.value)
                    {
                        resultsTextbox.Text += String.Format("{0}\t{1}\n", ds.Id, ds.Name);
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        catch (WebException wex)
        {
            resultsTextbox.Text = wex.Message;
        }
    }

Oct 30, 2018 in Power BI by Upasana
• 8,620 points
2,130 views

1 answer to this question.

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Try changing the resource URI:

var result = authenticationContext.AcquireToken(resource: "https://management.core.windows.net/", clientCredential: credential);

to

var result = authenticationContext.AcquireToken(resource: **"https://analysis.windows.net/powerbi/api"**, clientCredential: credential);

You want to acquire a token for the power bi api.

Hope, it helps.

answered Oct 30, 2018 by Shubham
• 13,490 points

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