Tableau Data Sources API
Publish, query, update, delete, and download data sources. Data sources define the connection to data and can be shared across multiple workbooks.
Tableau Data Sources API is one of 25 APIs that Tableau publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
This API exposes 1 JSON Schema definition.
Tagged areas include Data Sources. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, a JSON-LD context, authentication docs, a changelog, a getting-started guide, and 1 JSON Schema.
This API exposes 11 operations across 7 paths, and defines 16 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 3.24.0.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://{server}/api/{api-version}.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
Tableau Data Sources API declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
An API key is passed in the header as X-Tableau-Auth (TableauAuth).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
TableauAuth— The authentication token obtained from the Sign In method. Include this token in the X-Tableau-Auth header of all subsequent requests.
Paths & Operations 11
Across 7 paths, the API surfaces 11 operations — 1 DELETE, 7 GET, 3 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Publish, query, update, delete, and download data sources. Data sources define the connection to data and can be shared across multiple workbooks.
Schemas 16
The contract defines 16 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are DataSource (15 properties), Revision (6 properties), Connection (6 properties), Pagination (3 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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