From the course: Power BI Data Methods (2019)
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Querying API data
- [Instructor] API stands for application programming interface. Web developers use it to connect their web applications to other web applications. An API connection works like a query where the original application sends out a unique query to the online data source, which returns a subset of the data we can use. The application we want to connect to must offer an API connection in order for us to query the data. An API key serves as a unique access key that allows us to create our own API queries. Safeguard your own API key and do not share it with others. We are going to set up an API connection to the U.S. Census Data we saw earlier. When we look through the API documentation on the U.S. Census website, we see that we need to request an API key to query this connection. We will receive this API key in an email which includes not only the API key but also documentation for setting up the API query perimeters and Endpoints.…
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