Tableau now has a REST API Connector

0:00The new REST API connector unlocks API data for business users without developer resources, enabling self-service Oh this is nice.

0:07This is very nice.

0:09Connectors the int intended to replace me with the deprecated web data connector option.

0:13Okay, I was gonna say.

0:15So history lesson

0:17Web data connectors came out I want to say six years ago, uh maybe seven years ago, and they were designed to allow you to connect to web data sources.

0:26For example, if you wanted to query the Strava API for all your run data

0:30you'd use a web data connector and build a connector for Strava.

0:34What this is saying is that you don't need to build that connector, you don't need to build that sort of code base.

0:39What instead you can do is you can put the details of the Strava API directly in the connector and pull

0:45that data from the API, meaning you don't have to do any development.

0:49You still need all the information.

0:50So you need the API URL, you need the response format, the JSON path, the authentication.

0:55In the world of AI, these are genuinely very easy to figure out.

0:59If you don't know them, I guarantee you Claude Chat GPT will be able to sort of help you pass through this.

1:06Put those in and you should be able just to connect the data freely.

1:09This is this is generally a big big lifesaver.

1:11It saves a lot of people having to do development.

1:14It's extremely powerful