Power Bi API push data to an existsing dataset from Power BI Desktop

Question

I was able to create a dataset and push data to it via an application by Power BI Rest API.
Now I have a dataset that I have imported from .pbix file (Power BI Desktop). Can I push data to it via Power BI Rest API? I have tried it and I always get an error.

Answer 1

It seems that REST APIs can only manipulate the datasets and tables also created via REST APIs.

You can check this idea Push data via API into an existing model and vote it up.

Answer 2

If you are using Push dataset you are using a live connection, which means you can only have one PushDataset in your .pbix report.

Pushing data with REST API applies only to push datasets.

*** this is true at the moment. Might change in future updates of PowerBi.