Developer Resources

The Developer Portal(Link opens in a new window) on the Tableau Community is the place to go for everything related to extending and automating Tableau. There you can get access to the following:

  • JavaScript API—Integrate Tableau views into your own web applications.

  • REST API—Manage provisioning, permissions, and publishing on Tableau Server or Tableau Cloud via HTTP. The REST API gives you access to the functionality behind the data sources, projects, workbooks, site users, and sites. You can use this access to create custom applications or to script interactions with server resources.

  • Tableau SDK—Use C, C++, Java, or Python to create extracts from any data and then to publish your extracts.

  • Tableau Metadata API—Using GraphQL, you can discover and query Tableau content and related external assets and metadata. For more information, see Tableau Metadata API(Link opens in a new window).

  • Web Data Connector—Create a Tableau connection in JavaScript to almost any data that's accessible over HTTP. This can include internal web services, JSON data, XML data, REST APIs, and many other sources.

  • ODBC connector—Create a connection using ODBC (Open Database Connectivity), which is a data-access protocol that's supported by a wide array of data sources. In Tableau Desktop, you can connect to any ODBC-compliant source using the built-in ODBC connector.

In addition to these resources, you can get complete documentation and examples, and collaborate with the Tableau developer community.

Notes for Tableau Cloud users

Go to the Developer Portal(Link opens in a new window)

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