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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 } 3 months ago	by Ciara Brennan
	Tableau 10 is here: v2 WDCs can now be used in Tableau 1 year ago	by Brendan Lee

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Archana Ambavane in Web Data Connector11 months ago (Show more Show less)

WDC Refresh Issue on Tableau Server

Hi, I have published a WDC data source on our Tableau Server which successfully created the extract. But when I try to refresh the extract I get the below error: CVDashboard is out of date… (Show more Show less)

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Albert van Niekerk (to Ken Flerlage) 1 day ago (Show more Show less)

What about the case where you have a headless server? I am sitting with a similar situation and the logs don't seem to be helpful

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suyog chafale in Web Data Connector1 week ago (Show more Show less)

WDC not working in Tableau desktop

My WDC works fine in simulator (running in chrome). But when I use it in Desktop I get below error. ":0 -- Blocked a frame with origin \"https://localhost:4200\" from accessing a frame with origin… (Show more Show less)

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Keshia Rose

(to suyog chafale) 3 days ago (Show more Show less)

Hi Suyog, Glad you got it working!! Yes, the current browser is very outdated, we are running Qt Webkit 5.4 but will be upgrading it to Qt WebEngine 5.10 in 2019.4 which will support modern…

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Anuj Singh in Web Data Connector5 days ago (Show more Show less)

What browser version Tableau Web Data Connector uses ?

What is browser version and type that Tableau Desktop uses for its web data connector?

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Brad Sheridan in Web Data Connector2 years ago (Show more Show less)

Web Data Connector for Twitter

Does anyone know which WDC might have been used in this workbook (line below)??? I'd like to use the same one so that my dataset has the same columns and then I can simply 'replace datasource' on… (Show more Show less)

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James Allison in Web Data Connector2 weeks ago (Show more Show less)

How to handle nested json in the javascript portion of a web data connector?

The Williams College Museum of Art has been building a gitHub repository to share digital data related to our collection. One piece of that data is a json file that is an array of objects, one of… (Show more Show less)

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Ciara Brennan

(to James Allison) 3 days ago (Show more Show less)

Hi Jim Thanks for the update, and glad to hear the problem is now resolved. If you have a couple of minutes could you please take this quick survey around your experience on the Tableau Community…

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Manuel Cruz in Web Data Connector2 weeks ago (Show more Show less)

WDC for a Rest API with Authorization token in header

I'm working on creating a Web Data Connector to access some data but can't find an example where I can include an authorization token set in the header. Is this possible and can someone please… (Show more Show less)

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Ciara Brennan

(to Manuel Cruz) 3 days ago (Show more Show less)

Hi Manuel If you have a couple of minutes could you please take this quick survey around your experience on the Tableau Community Forums? ***Tell us about your experience on the Tableau Community…

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John Emery in Web Data Connector1 week ago (Show more Show less)

Building a Web Data Connector, Fetch Data Table Not Appearing in Simulator

All, I have been tasked with creating a WDC for a client's API. I have no experience building WDCs, and practically no experience coding in JavaScript. I have been following the tutorial… (Show more Show less)

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Ciara Brennan

(to John Emery) 3 days ago (Show more Show less)

Thanks for the update, John We'll mark this post as closed. If you have a couple of minutes could you please take this quick survey around your experience on the Tableau Community Forums?…

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Nate Hill in Web Data Connector5 days ago (Show more Show less)

WDC data not added to sheet in 2019.3

I'm developing a WDC and before 2019.3, Tableau Desktop had no problem with retrieving the data from the WDC and adding it to a sheet. Now, the summary screen in Tableau shows the data as it… (Show more Show less)

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John Emery in Web Data Connector5 days ago (Show more Show less)

JSON Data Field Names Contain Spaces and Special Characters

Hello, I'm attempting to create a Web Data Connector based on a data set that is structured like so: {"result":{"message":"Success","result":[{"first Name":"Bobo","last Name":"Jay",… (Show more Show less)

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Brian Tribondeau in Web Data Connector4 weeks ago (Show more Show less)

Jupytab | Create datasource in Tableau from Python (using Jupyter notebook)

Hello everyone, I just release a new kind of web data connector that you may found useful : Jupytab (https://github.com/CFMTech/Jupytab) It allows to connect a collection of python notebooks… (Show more Show less)

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