Before we create pipelines to fetch data from the REST API, we need to create a helper pipeline that will fetch a new access token. This pipeline has the following format: Get the last known refresh token from the database (or whatever storage you use). You need to have manually retrieved the first pair of […]
Category: Azure Data Factory
Azure Data Factory and the Exact Online REST API – Fetching your first refresh/access tokens
To get data out of the REST API of Exact Online, we first need to authenticate ourselves. With APIs, typically tokens are used: a long string of symbols that will serve as a secret. You pass a token to an API, which will check if the token is valid and if it grants you access. […]
Azure Data Factory and the Exact Online REST API – Introduction
I’m going to do a small blog post series on how to extract data from a REST API using Azure Data Factory. I’m going to use the Exact Online REST API, because it has a series of challenges: a complicated process to get your first access token endpoints with more data will use pagination a […]