Download Power BI Reports using PowerShell

In this blog post I will be sharing a PowerShell script that allows multiple Power BI reports to be downloaded at once.

In the Power BI service, there is no way of downloading multiple Power BI reports at once. Therefore, users must download files one by one which is slow, time consuming and inefficient. Thankfully, there are ways around this, one of which is using PowerShell.

The script is downloadable at the bottom of the page as a txt file. To use the script there are three steps to take.

The first step is to install and import the MicrosoftPowerBIMgmt PowerShell module. The following code should do the trick.

The second step is to fill in the variables at the top of the script:

• Workspace Name
• Report Name
• Download Path

Workspace Name – The name of the workspace in which the report or reports are stored.

Report Name – This can be configured to download one, multiple or all reports in the workspace.
One report = @(‘Report 1’)
Multiple reports = @(‘Report 1’, ‘Report 2’, ‘Report 3’)
All reports = @()

Download Path – The folder where the report or reports will be saved to.

Once these variables are assigned the script is ready to be executed.

The third and final step is to sign into Power BI, a prompt asking you to sign into Microsoft Azure will pop up. Use the credentials you would use to sign into PowerBI.com.

The script should now run in full and bring the PBIX files into the designated folder.

The script is attached as a txt file.

This script will only save your Power BI reports if they can be downloaded as PBIX files. If Large dataset storage format or Incremental refresh has been enabled the reports can’t be downloaded as a PBIX file. To back these reports up I would recommend Power BI Sentinel – https://www.powerbisentinel.com/

 

Tags: Power BI, PowerShell