webdataconnector

Tableau Web Data Connector. Developer samples and tools. Also a list of connectors created by the Tableau developer community.

Getting Started

• Clone this repo if you want to run everything locally (alternatively you can download everything as a .zip file)
• Try the samples (hosted or locally)
• Submit a pull request to share any connectors you've created
• Check out the Tableau Developer Portal at http://developers.tableau.com for WDC docs and forum

Coming Soon!

Want to see what's coming next for the WDC? In a future Tableau release, we will be releasing version 2.0 of the web data connector API. This content is currently in beta and you can learn more here! http://tableau.github.io/webdataconnector.

Hosted WDC Simulator

You can run the Simulator locally or use the hosted one here:

Hosted WDC Simulator

On WDC Versioning

The hosted simulator requires that web data connectors be using version 1.1.1 of the WDC API. If you need to run a WDC that uses 1.1.0, you can use the old simulator.

In Tableau Desktop versions 9.1 and 9.2, we had a bug that caused the WDC platform to not respect versioning. If you are using a Desktop verion before 9.1.6 or before 9.2.4, you will see the following error when connecting to a WDC using 1.1.0. "The version of Tableau that you are using cannot use the web data connector that you are trying to access. The connector requires at least version '1.1.1' of the web data connector API." Please upgrade to the latest maintenance patch if you encounter this.

All of the hosted development samples have been upgraded to 1.1.1 so that they can be used in the new simulator. However, we left the Google Sheets sample at 1.1.0 to minimize the impact for users who are actively using this web data connector and have not yet upgraded to the latest maintenance version. The Google Sheets example has also been moved into the community section to reflect this.

Soon we will be incrementing the WDC API more frequently, so we will add a lookup table here that shows which WDC API versions work with which Tableau Desktop and Server versions. Moving forward, a specific Desktop minor version, i.e. 9.3, will work with any WDC of the corresponding minor version (9.3.* will work with 1.1.*).

Official Tableau WDC Samples

These are the samples created and maintained by Tableau.

"Hosted URL" can be used to run the connector in Tableau or in the Simulator.

Name	Data Source	Source Code	Hosted URL
Incremental Update Connector	N/A	Examples	IncrementalUpdateConnector.html
JSON Connector	N/A	Examples	jsonConnector.html
Mad Money Scraper Connector	Mad Money Stock Picks	Examples	MadMoneyScraper.html
Socrata Connector	Socrata	Examples	SocrataConnector.html
Stock Quote Connector	Yahoo! Stock Data	Examples	StockQuoteConnector_final.html
XML Connector	Any XML file	Examples	xmlConnector.html

Community Created Connectors

These are connectors created and maintained by the community. Not endorsed or supported by Tableau.

Name of Connector	Data Source	Author	Source Code	Hosted URL
AWS CloudWatch	CloudWatch	David F. Severski	Tableau WDC for CloudWatch	N/A
DoubleClick Campaign Manager	DCM by Google	Eric Peterson	dcm-dfa-wdc	DCM/DFA WDC
Elastic Search	Elastic Search	Adam Lacey	mradamlacey	N/A
Fitbit	Fitbit.com	Craig Bloodworth	N/A	Fitbit WDC
Flickr	Flickr	Zeki Melek	tableau-wdc-flickr	N/A
GitHub	GitHub API	Martin Keerman	github-data-connector	GitHub WDC
Google Sheets Connector	Google Sheets	Ivo Salmre	Source	GoogleSheetsConnector.html
Import.io	Import.io	Robert Rouse	N/A	Import.io WDC
Kimono	Kimono	Franz Amador	wdc	KimonoConnector.html
Last.fm	Last.fm	Justin Dallal	jdallal/LastFM-Web-Data-Connector	N/A
Mapbox	Mapbox.com	Craig Bloodworth	N/A	Mapbox WDC
Microsoft Health	Microsoft Health	Ben Lower	tableau-wdc-mshealth	N/A
Moves App	Moves App	Craig Bloodworth	N/A	Moves App WDC
New Relic Insights	Insights Query API	Eric Peterson	insights-data-connector	NR Insights WDC
Quandl	Quandl.com	Craig Bloodworth	N/A	Quandl WDC
Reddit	Reddit.com	Justin Dallal	jdallal/Reddit-Web-Data-Connector	N/A
Runkeeper	Runkeeper.com	Craig Bloodworth	N/A	Runkeeper WDC
Seattle/King County Restaurant Inspections	King County	Ben Lower	tableau-wdc-kcfoodinspection	foodInspectionWDC.html
Stripe	Stripe API	Benji Schwartz-Gilbert	stripe-web-data-connector	Stripe WDC
Square	Square API	Samm Desmond	WDC	Square WDC
Tfl BikesPoint	Tfl.gov	James Dunkerley	jdunkerley	Tfl BikesPoint WDC
Travis CI	Travis CI API	Eric Peterson	travis-data-connector	Travis CI WDC
Trello Kanban	Trello	Alex Baldini	WDC	NA
Twitter Users	Twitter API	Samm Desmond	WDC	Twitter WDC
United States Census Data	Census Data	Addy Naik	Census WDC	Census WDC

Resources

Here are a few great WDC resources that might be helpful for developement.

Resource	Author	Type
Better WDC Performance with Promises	Eric Peterson	Tutorial
generator-web-data-connector	Eric Peterson	Development Tools