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Unable to Connect to Web Source With Credentials in Power Query
Deleted I thought I'd posted my workaround, but maybe not here.
Briefly: it won't work with this new style, you have to re-enable the legacy data wizard and use that.
This does still work - I used it last week.
https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/data-import-and-analysis-options-3ea52160-08bc-45ac-acd9-bc4a11bcc2a2
Tim Scott Tried to enable legacy data wizard but still didn't work. I also tried to use Power BI and gave me save result. New PC unable to fetch other tables. Is there a special data connector microsoft uses or it is really an issue with credentials?
Btw, Old laptop OS is Windows 10 Home, new PC OS is Windows 10 PRO. Does this affects Excel/PowerBI web data scraping?
Deleted From what I gathered, the new method did not handle authentication and the legacy wizards behave in the way they used to. At the risk of making a silly point, you did go to the legacy wizards option on the menu, not the option which now launches the new method, didn't you?
Tim Scott I went to Excel Options >> Data >> Show legacy data import wizards
Hope I did get you correctly.
Just for reference, below are Navigator snapshot using Power BI
PBI_NewPCPBI_OldLaptop
Deleted first of all, it looks like the query on your old PC hasn't been refreshed in months. From the Query Editor, click on REFRESH ALL and see if it still works. If it does work, click on the Web View tab and post a screen shot of both PC's (redacting any sensitive info of course). Lastly, click on Data Source Settings on the Main tab in Query Editor and then Edit Credentials. See how the old one is set-up compared to the new PC. I'm not convinced your problem is authentication or that your problem doesn't exist on the old PC. This will prove or disprove, I think.
Tim Scott's legacy wizard suggestions are not at all what you're looking for. the legacy scrape is far inferior and you old PC was not using legacy. Not sure why it's even being suggested.
To answer your question to me, I did figure this out - somehow. Can't recall exactly. But it had something to do with typing my password into the API credentials, I think. I can't quite recall but it wasn't an obvious move. After 2 years with no answer, I just started trying things and it worked. Did it for a few other sites, didn't write it down, now I can't remember.
