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Power BI REST API developer sandbox

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Power BI REST API developer sandbox

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- [Instructor] The term API stands for Application Programming Interface. It enables web applications to securely communicate with one another. Within Power BI, we can use APIs to query APIs already set up in data sources we want to connect to, for example. We can also use APIs to connect to Power BI through other applications. The Power BI REST API enables us to create embedded analytics for organizational processes like managing content, performing admin operations, and embedding content in other webpages and applications. Let's also briefly discuss how webpages work. If we inspect the elements on a webpage, we'll see there's HTML code behind them. You might also have seen the option for iFrame, which embeds a Power BI report as a frame, for example, within a webpage. Conversely, where we want to interact with these elements, we use JavaScript to navigate to another page, for example. In the sandbox example we'll explore, we'll see JavaScript code in action, but we won't have to…

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