any Rest APIs to create a report in powerbi service? - powerbi

Question

i have searched official powerbi docs thoroughly.
There are APIs for creating datasets, updating them and for deleting them.
Additionally, there are APIs to clone, update and delete a report.
But after searching a lot, I have not been able to find anything that can help me in creation of a fresh new (visual) report through API?
PS: actually I want to create a visual (not paginated) report without manually going to powerbi desktop or service. I just want to do it with the help of a powerbi rest API.
So is there anyway we can create a new report from existing dataset w/ rest API?
Also, if not possible with rest apis, could this may be possible with powerbi-embedding?

Answer 1

Yes, it is possible.
First, you need to generate an embed token for report creation from a dataset present in your PBI Service. It can be done by making a POST request to the API from backend.
After that, you can create a new report from that dataset. (Using createReport method in your frontend)
example:
let embedCreateConfiguration = {
tokenType: tokenType,
accessToken: accessToken,
embedUrl: embedURL,
datasetId: datasetId,
settings: settings, //optional
theme: theme, // optional
};
// Grab the reference to the div HTML element that will host the report
let embedContainer = $('#embedContainer')[0];
// Create report
let report = powerbi.createReport(embedContainer, embedCreateConfiguration);
References:
Create, edit, and save an embedded report | Microsoft Learn
Embed Token - Reports GenerateTokenForCreateInGroup - REST API (Power BI Power BI REST APIs) | Microsoft Learn