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An example of from using Python to get the API behind a Tableau site, rather than scraping the HTML. Per the author, Jeremy J. Bowers, it will work for any Tableau vizql implementation, with a bit of URL substitution.
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# Related, from News Nerdery thread: | |
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# aricchokey 2 hours ago | |
# @ejmurra Looks like another way to grab the data is by tacking on a ".csv" at the end of the chosen sheet. It will | |
# return the delimited version of the data/trigger the download from Tableau, too. | |
# Like https://bi.ahca.myflorida.com/t/ABICC/views/Public/HospitalBedsHospital.csv or | |
# https://bi.ahca.myflorida.com/t/ABICC/views/Public/ICUBedsCounty.csv. Might get rid of the need for a payload | |
# in your script. | |
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup | |
import json | |
import requests | |
headers = { | |
'sec-fetch-mode': 'cors', | |
'origin': 'https://bi.ahca.myflorida.com', | |
'accept-encoding': 'gzip, deflate, br', | |
'accept-language': 'en-US,en;q=0.9', | |
'cookie': 'tableau_locale=en', | |
'x-tsi-active-tab': 'Hospital%20BedsCounty', | |
'user-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/77.0.3865.90 Safari/537.36', | |
'content-type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded', | |
'accept': 'text/javascript', | |
'referer': 'https://bi.ahca.myflorida.com/t/ABICC/views/Public/HospitalBedsCounty?%3AshowAppBanner=false&%3Adisplay_count=n&%3AshowVizHome=n&%3Aorigin=viz_share_link&%3AisGuestRedirectFromVizportal=y&%3Aembed=y', | |
'authority': 'bi.ahca.myflorida.com', | |
'sec-fetch-site': 'same-origin', | |
'dnt': '1', | |
} | |
data = { | |
'worksheetPortSize': '{"w":1680,"h":536}', | |
'dashboardPortSize': '{"w":1680,"h":536}', | |
'clientDimension': '{"w":1680,"h":220}', | |
'renderMapsClientSide': 'true', | |
'isBrowserRendering': 'true', | |
'browserRenderingThreshold': '100', | |
'formatDataValueLocally': 'false', | |
'clientNum': '', | |
'navType': 'Reload', | |
'navSrc': 'Top', | |
'devicePixelRatio': '2', | |
'clientRenderPixelLimit': '25000000', | |
'allowAutogenWorksheetPhoneLayouts': 'true', | |
'sheet_id': 'Hospital%20BedsCounty', | |
'showParams': '{"checkpoint":false,"refresh":false,"refreshUnmodified":false}', | |
'stickySessionKey': '{"featureFlags":"{}","isAuthoring":false,"isOfflineMode":false,"lastUpdatedAt":1585873049792,"workbookId":1770}', | |
'filterTileSize': '200', | |
'locale': 'en_US', | |
'language': 'en', | |
'verboseMode': 'false', | |
':session_feature_flags': '{}', | |
'keychain_version': '1' | |
} | |
baseurl = "https://bi.ahca.myflorida.com/t/ABICC/views/Public/HospitalBedsCounty?%3AshowAppBanner=false&%3Adisplay_count=n&%3AshowVizHome=n&%3Aorigin=viz_share_link&%3AisGuestRedirectFromVizportal=y&%3Aembed=y" | |
r = requests.get(baseurl, headers=headers) | |
soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text, 'lxml') | |
config = json.loads(soup.select('#tsConfigContainer')[0].text) | |
sessionid = config['sessionid'] | |
response = requests.post(f'https://bi.ahca.myflorida.com/vizql/t/ABICC/w/Public/v/HospitalBedsCounty/bootstrapSession/sessions/{sessionid}', headers=headers, data=data) |
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Also, this:
Reverse-Engineering a Tableau Dashboard Feed
And this:
https://github.com/bertrandmartel/tableau-scraping