Important: Tableau Web Data Connector 2.0 (this version) is being deprecated at Tableau 2023.1 and eventually retired. We will still support WDC 2.0 until its last compatible version of Tableau (Tableau 2022.4) goes End of Life and is no longer supported.
For information about Tableau Web Data Connector 3.0, see the WDC 3.0 documentation.
The Web Data Connector comes with sample connectors that you can use to learn about specific features of the WDC API.
The samples are in the Examples folder of the webdataconnector repository. You can see the repository
online here.
This is the default connector when you open the simulator. Instructions for building it are in the Tutorial. It connects to the USGS Earthquake feed and gets data about earthquakes in the last week.
This connector builds on the previous one to showcase how to get data into multiple tables from a data source.
This connector demonstrates how to use the locale property of the tableau object to localize content.
This connector gets data from multiple tables in a local JSON file and specifies how the tables should be joined in Tableau Desktop.
This connector showcases how use the incremental refresh API to fetch data incrementally.
This example shows you how to use OAuth as an authentication method.