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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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Ajay Acharya in Web Data Connector2 weeks ago (Show more Show less)

Web Data Connector Parameters

When creating a web connector we can pass the parameters , but how do we dynamically pass the parameter once the connection is created? I can create a connector to get financial information for a… (Show more Show less)

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Geraldine Zanolli

(to Akanksha Gupta) 2 days ago (Show more Show less)

Hi Akansha, Only the developer can interact with the WDC interface. You have two solutions: 1. Continue to use WDC but fetch all the data and use Tableau quick filter to let the user selects…

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william harter in Web Data Connector7 days ago (Show more Show less)

Works in Simulator not in Desktop

My web data connector is working great in the Simulator, but errors in Desktop. First I had problems with the > in this code Object.keys(params).forEach(key => … (Show more Show less)

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william harter (to william harter) 2 days ago (Show more Show less)

So I was finally able to solve this, but something that should put out a better error. After removing all the code from the getData and it still failing, I turned to the getSchema. Upon removing…

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Akanksha Gupta in Web Data Connector3 days ago (Show more Show less)

Web Data Connector issue

hi all , I am working in a firm and what i want is user select a date range and the charts of the required data get plotted. What i have done is, I have used the web data connector which is having… (Show more Show less)

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Chris Redekop in Web Data Connector5 days ago (Show more Show less)

How to control WDC url history?

I have written a new WDC, and everything works nicely, however as part of my authentication process I redirect the browser to an external site (login page), and then after login the user is… (Show more Show less)

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Dhanashree Arole in Web Data Connector2 years ago (Show more Show less)

Error starting test web server

Hello, As per tableau web data connector, I downloaded git and npm, the cloning went fine; however unable to successfully execute "npm start" command. It is complaining about non-existing js… (Show more Show less)

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william harter (to Punya Sapkota) 5 days ago (Show more Show less)

One more thing I just noticed. Make sure your folder isn't on a Google drive on a Mac. I was seeing missing files on the npm install and it had to do with Google drive mucking with the file system.…

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Michael Farrow in Web Data Connector6 days ago (Show more Show less)

Shutdown logic at end of multitable getData phase

I would like to send a message back to my web server at the end of the Tableau WDC process in order to clean up some temporary files created when returning data in the gather data phase. I tried… (Show more Show less)

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william harter in Web Data Connector1 week ago (Show more Show less)

Docker and WDC issue

I've successfully built a WDC connector for our site on my dev machine. I was going to host it and hoping to use Docker. I successfully built a container with WDC and my connector and launched it.… (Show more Show less)

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william harter (to william harter) 1 week ago (Show more Show less)

I guess this question may be irrelevant. I was just reading the section on hosting and it shows simple hosting with github and heroku. Since this has a server component I'm going to look at hosting…

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brian.lang.0 in Web Data Connector3 years ago (Show more Show less)

Amazon Retail Analytics connector?

Does anyone know of a connector for Amazon Retail Analytics / Amazon Retail Analytics Premium? -Brian

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Melvin Murrow (to brian.lang.0) 1 week ago (Show more Show less)

We use vendoranalytics.io for our reports outside of ARAP. We just have them insert the data into a database that we connect to on Tableau and PowerBI. Works good!

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Akanksha Gupta in Web Data Connector2 weeks ago (Show more Show less)

WDC code

Can anyone explain me the code for calling an API which uses access token authorization and that too expires within 10 minutes? Can we send the request to the Postman directly? myConnector.init… (Show more Show less)

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Geraldine Zanolli

(to Akanksha Gupta) 2 weeks ago (Show more Show less)

Hi Akanksha, You should check this tutorial => Node Proxy with OAuth Tutorial Let's me know if it is useful. Thanks, Gigi

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patrick.byrne.0 mentioned Web Data Connector 2 weeks ago Show mention context Hide mention context

Re: Custom SQL for Tableau/Qubole link

patrick.byrne.0 mentioned Web Data Connector 2 weeks ago

Hello Alexander, I have not worked with the Qubole link and Tableau Desktop. How are you making the connection to Qudoble. Is this through our WDC or ODBC connectors? I ask because we havePreview Hide preview

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