Data refresh from web source requires Personal Gateway?

Hi,

Lately I have had problems connecting to web data sources with Power BI. The connection works fine in Power BI Desktop but I am not able to create a scheduled refresh for the data on Power BI site. The site requires me to set up a Personal Gateway which, based on my knowledge, should not be needed in case of web as data source.

I managed to solve one data source (which was Google Sheet) by changing the type to xls instead of html.

However, this does not seem to solve my problem for some other (non Google sites).

Since these same sources have been in use since June, I believe there is something that was changed in the latest update which now creates this problem.

Example of not ok data source: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MnrDYPNhXOucVRe9tMF_x1WshYP46q1o5Oq2TnHnJiA/pub?single=true&gid=6&output=html

However, if I change the end to &output=xls then it works OK. A tip for this I got from this community, thanks!

Another source which used to work OK is:

http://sdw.ecb.europa.eu/browseTable.do?dc=&removeItem=&ec=&rc=&legendPub=published&oc=&node=9691297&df=true&FREQ=M&pb=&legendNor=&DATASET=0&legendRef=reference&SERIES_KEY=120.EXR.M.USD.EUR.SP00.A&SERIES_KEY=120.EXR.M.GBP.EUR.SP00.A&SERIES_KEY=120.EXR.M.DKK.EUR.SP00.A&SERIES_KEY=120.EXR.M.PLN.EUR.SP00.A&SERIES_KEY=120.EXR.M.SEK.EUR.SP00.A&SERIES_KEY=120.EXR.M.NOK.EUR.SP00.A&SERIES_KEY=120.EXR.M.RUB.EUR.SP00.A

This does not work currently (works in Desktop but I am not able to refresh from Power BI site where e.g. scheduled refresh is set up. I tried another link for same souce but linking to XLS instead:

http://sdw.ecb.europa.eu/export.do?dc=&removeItem=&rc=&ec=&legendPub=published&node=9691297&oc=&df=true&FREQ=M&pb=&legendNor=&SERIES_KEY=120.EXR.M.USD.EUR.SP00.A&SERIES_KEY=120.EXR.M.GBP.EUR.SP00.A&SERIES_KEY=120.EXR.M.DKK.EUR.SP00.A&SERIES_KEY=120.EXR.M.PLN.EUR.SP00.A&SERIES_KEY=120.EXR.M.SEK.EUR.SP00.A&SERIES_KEY=120.EXR.M.NOK.EUR.SP00.A&SERIES_KEY=120.EXR.M.RUB.EUR.SP00.A&legendRef=reference&DATASET=0&exportType=xls

But this does not seem to work either

br,

Helena