Error "URL points to a website, not a web data connector" When Using Web Data Connector

Дата публикации: Mar 25, 2025

Описание

When using the Web Data Connector to connect to a web data source, the following error might occur:

URL points to a website, not a web data connector

Cause

A WDC is an HTML page with JavaScript code that connects to web data, for example, by means of a REST API, converts the data to JSON format, and passes the data to Tableau.

Решение

Make sure that you enter the URL of a web data connector, and not the URL of the data that you’re trying to connect to.

Дополнительные ресурсы

For example, http://github.com/jdallal/LastFM-Web-Data-Connector points to a website not a WDC. The site lists the WDCs to be hosted.
On the other hand, if the code at https://github.com/jdallal/LastFM-Web-Data-Connector/blob/master/lastfmRecentTracksWDC.html is hosted on a site (with the API key that is needed), when the URL is put into the WDC pane, data will be shown.
A working WDC would be http://benlower.github.io/tableau-wdc-kcfoodinspection/foodInspectionWDC.html which allows you to see King County Washington Food Inspection Data.

You can test this by browsing to the WDC URL in any internet browser. If you are given the options to enter information for the data (such as the ZIP code in the King County Food Inspection Data), then you are going to a WDC. If the site looks like standard website (or a list of data) then you are not using a valid WDC.

For testing purposes, explore these links:

http://benlower.github.io/tableau-wdc-kcfoodinspection/foodInspectionWDC.html - Working WDC file
http://github.com/jdallal/LastFM-Web-Data-Connector - website listing WDC code.

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