I've got a unique problem. I built a dashboard that shows information for each state in the US, and I'd like to add in contact information for each state's representative in a particular national organization. Their website includes all of this information, but I'm unfamiliar in HTML. The URL ends in a 2 character state abbreviation, and the source code has the contact information. I could use a URL action, but it would show the entire website rather than parse out the contact information on its own. Is it at all possible to do the following:
<quick filter for state abbreviation>
-go to URL ending in state abbreviation
-locate lines 585-594 of HTML source code
-extract data from HTML
-display data in dashboard
It feels like a crazy request, but I'd love any insight. I'm not sure if an API is what I'm needing, or what. Thanks!
It IS a crazy request
You are probably better off parsing those sites outside of Tableau (curl, Python, PowerShell - tool is not important) and create dataset that you could join on state key.
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