REST

This post describes how to query XML on the web with C# and SSIS. The emphasis is on the C# code, as I assume the reader is somewhat familiar with the SSIS Script Task. And in order to allow anyone to easily try this example, there is no authentication step. If you’re retrieving XML values from an API, there’s a good chance that you will need to authenticate first. I recently worked on a data integration project where I had to perform two steps involving a REST API in order to download web analytics data....

For my inaugural Power Query post, I’ll show how you can get data from the Twitter API, specifically the Twitter GET search/tweets method. The web API is one of my favorite data sources in Power Query, because it opens a new world of data to Excel users. There are literally thousands, and perhaps tens of thousands of APIs out there. Some examples include Data.gov, United States Census, Weather Underground, and Twitter....