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Use HTML and JavaScript to connect to any web data source and use it in Tableau.

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With the Web Data Connector SDK, you can unlock a world of data that's available over the web. In addition to using the dozens of data connectors that are already available in Tableau, you can now create your own web data connector (WDC) that reads data from virtually any site that publishes data in JSON, XML, or HTML.

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Check out the sample WDCs in the SDK - they are open sourced on GitHub.

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Subject		Author
	Video: Your first web data connector: from 0 to } 6 months ago	by Ciara Brennan
	Tableau 10 is here: v2 WDCs can now be used in Tableau 2 years ago	by Brendan Lee

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komal Dalal in Web Data Connector12 hours ago (Show more Show less)

Refresh Failure: connectionNotWhitelisted for Facebook WDC

Hi, I am trying to setup schedule refresh using Facebook web data connector (https://www.sorendam.com/tableau-web-data-connector-for-facebook/ ) but I received extract Refresh Failed email… (Show more Show less)

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Geraldine Zanolli

(to komal Dalal) 30 minutes ago (Show more Show less)

Hi Komal, You can use the Tableau bridge to refresh your data if you can access it by entering a standard user name and password. You can't use Tableau Bridge to maintain live connections to Web…

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Ben Henny in Web Data Connector2 years ago (Show more Show less)

WDC With Client Certificate Authentication

I'm trying to build a web data connector that connects to an api that uses client certificates (mutual SSL) for authentication. It is working in the simulator, but fails in Tableau. When Tableau… (Show more Show less)

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Robert Foreman (to Samm Desmond) 2 days ago (Show more Show less)

I too am trying to build a Web Data Connector to support an API protected by authentication that requires client cert authentication. I am the developer for both the Web Data Connector and the…

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Mick Sheahan in Web Data Connector3 months ago (Show more Show less)

How to continue after getting a 404 Not Found error?

Using a WDC to connect to Fantasy Premier League data. (Inspiration from the example by Alex Francis Ross.) Code works fine looping through all the elements (players) from the api… (Show more Show less)

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Keshia Rose

(to Mick Sheahan) 2 days ago (Show more Show less)

Ok, I'll admit I didn't actually test spitting out the data at the end and noticed an issue there. Here is my working snippet, if you do not include the catch on the getJSON call it won't work when…

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Minh Dao in Web Data Connector2 weeks ago (Show more Show less)

Need help!! Error: The URL points to a website, not a web data connector

I followed the Earthquake example but I create the WDC using Angular. The code is the same, just modify a bit to work with Angular, and it works fine in Simulator. However, I kept getting the error… (Show more Show less)

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Paul Grimshaw in Web Data Connector2 months ago (Show more Show less)

Web Data Connector issue in 2019.4

Our web data connectors have stopped working in 2019.4, tested in both Mac and windows. The issue seems to be that `connectionData` is not maintained anymore between the login session and the… (Show more Show less)

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Ciara Brennan mentioned Web Data Connector 3 days ago Show mention context Hide mention context

Re: Tableau Social Media Connectors

Ciara Brennan mentioned Web Data Connector 3 days ago

I'd advise checking out the web data connectors board. Some WDCs there for Twitter and Facebook I think.... Web Data Connector Hope this helps Ciara [Program Manager | Tableau CommunityPreview Hide preview

Moses Dawodu in Web Data Connector1 week ago (Show more Show less)

WDC Basic Authentication

Is there actually a way to connect the Web Data Connector using basic authentication? It was very simple to do with PowerBI, however, I can't seem to do it on Tableau? Are there any other… (Show more Show less)

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Keshia Rose

(to Moses Dawodu) 6 days ago (Show more Show less)

Hi Moses, Are you using a Web Data Connector, or are you pasting in an endpoint? The Web Data Connector requires you to build a simple service to format the data in a way Tableau can receive. You…

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Russell Goldin

in Web Data Connector3 years ago (Show more Show less)

Open Source InfluxDB WDC

Hi everyone, I built a WDC for InfluxDB that I'd like to share with everyone. I have it hosted on Github (instructions = https://tagyoureit.github.io/InfluxDB_WDC) with web access to the WDC… (Show more Show less)

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Russell Goldin

(to Jeffery Legan) 6 days ago (Show more Show less)

Glad to hear it. Do you mean that you hosted the github project/files locally and connected the WDC to that? Do you know why it would have made a difference?

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Anthony Simpson in Web Data Connector3 months ago (Show more Show less)

PipeDrive WDC

Has anyone had any joy getting this Tableau to Pipedrive WDC working GitHub - jmargaglione/pipedriveWDT: Tableau Web Data Connector for Pipedrive When i try to connect to my Pipedrive account… (Show more Show less)

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Srinidhi Narayan

(to Anthony Simpson) 1 week ago (Show more Show less)

The WDC was developed 3 years ago. It is possible that the pipedrive API has since been updated, and that might have broken a few things. You might have to look at the code and see where there may…

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Dominika Stanska in Web Data Connector11 months ago (Show more Show less)

Hubspot web connector

Hi guys, did anyone successfully connect hubspot data via a connector? With skipping the part of sending data through DWH first?

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Ciara Brennan

(to John Elmer) 1 week ago (Show more Show less)

John Elmer wrote: Dominica, A HubSpot connector service for Tableau is now available in the HubSpot App Marketplace here. It includes a data warehouse for your HubSpot data that is updated…

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