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Get View Data

Retrieves data in comma separated value (CSV) format for the specified view in a Tableau workbook.

APIs called​

Required arguments​

viewId​

The ID of the view, potentially retrieved by the List Views or Get Workbook tool.

Example: 9460abfe-a6b2-49d1-b998-39e1ebcc55ce

Optional arguments​

viewFilters​

Map of view filter field names to values. vf_ prefix for field names is optional and will be added automatically when building the view filter query.

Example: { "year": "2017" }

Response behavior​

The tool returns one of two result shapes:

  • MCP_S3_BUCKET unset (default): returns the CSV as a single JSON-encoded text string (JSON.stringify(csv)), with newlines escaped as \n.
  • MCP_S3_BUCKET set: returns a resource_link with a short-lived presigned URL to the CSV file in S3, instead of inlining the data.

Example result (default)​

"Country/Region,State/Province,Profit Ratio,Latitude (generated),Longitude (generated)\nCanada,Alberta,19.5%,53.41,-114.42\nCanada,British Columbia,4.2%,54.9464,-125.1024\nCanada,Manitoba,8.2%,55.0085,-97.1771\n"

Example result (S3 mode)​

{
  "type": "resource_link",
  "uri": "https://example-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/...presigned...",
  "name": "view-data.csv",
  "mimeType": "text/csv",
  "description": "View data (CSV) stored in S3. This is a short-lived presigned URL."
}