TabCatalog - A simple Chrome Extension to explore the Tableau Metadata API and download query results

Using Tableau's Metadata API, one can explore metadata from the Tableau Catalog using GraphQL queries.

This simple (Chromium-based browser) extension allows one to quickly explore data from the Catalog and even export the results to a Json file, to further data analysis with e.g Tableau Desktop and Tableau Prep.

Getting Started

You will need to have npm installed. Download a copy of this code to a folder on your computer.

Install all the required packages:

npm install

Build the extension from webpack

npm run build

To install on Chrome/Edge/Brave (or any Chromium-based browser), use the 'three dot' menu on the top right corner of the browser to find the Extensions panel. From there, select 'Load Unpacked' to load a new extension. Open the 'dist' folder at the prompt and the extension will load.

To use it, you will need a Tableau Server Personal Access Token name and key (read more on how to generate one) and the URL for your Tableau Server or Tableau Online, for example https://my-server.com or https://eu-west-1a.online.tableau.com . You will also need the Tableau Site name.

You'll also need to know how to write some GraphQL queries compatible to the Tableau Catalog. You can find some examples here. To get started real quick, try this one:

query getViews_and_Workbooks {
    views {
      workbook {
        name
        projectName
      }
      name
      index
      path
      createdAt
      updatedAt
    }
  }