A Tableau Web Data Connector is designed to retrieve data available over HTTP or HTTPS and make that data available to Tableau. A common use case is connecting to a web service or REST API, transforming the returned information into the structure expected by Tableau, and creating an extract for analysis. Tableau documentation lists REST APIs, JSON data, XML data, and internal web services among the sources accessible through Web Data Connectors. A WDC is not a web analytics utility for capturing site traffic, nor is its fundamental purpose generic HTML-table scraping or publishing data to a corporate website. Although newer Tableau releases are moving toward newer connector technologies, the functionality tested by this Tableau Data Analyst question remains connection to web-accessible data such as an API.
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