tableau-to-sqlite

Fetch data from Tableau into a SQLite database. A wrapper around TableauScraper.

Installation

Install this tool using pip:

$ pip install tableau-to-sqlite

Usage

If you have the URL to a Tableau dashboard like this:

https://results.mo.gov/t/COVID19/views/VaccinationsDashboard/Vaccinations

You can pass that directly to the tool:

tableau-to-sqlite tableau.db \
  https://results.mo.gov/t/COVID19/views/VaccinationsDashboard/Vaccinations

This will create a SQLite database called tableau.db containing one table for each of the worksheets in that dashboard.

If the dashboard is hosted on https://public.tableau.com/ you can instead provide the view name. This will be two strings separated by a / symbol - something like this:

OregonCOVID-19VaccineProviderEnrollment/COVID-19VaccineProviderEnrollment

Now run the tool like this:

tableau-to-sqlite tableau.db \
    OregonCOVID-19VaccineProviderEnrollment/COVID-19VaccineProviderEnrollment

Get the data as JSON or CSV

If you're building a git scraper you may want to convert the data gathered by this tool to CSV or JSON to check into your repository.

You can do that using sqlite-utils. Install it using pip:

pip install sqlite-utils

You can dump out a table as JSON like so:

sqlite-utils rows tableau.db \
   'Admin Site and County Map Site No Info' > tableau.json

Or as CSV like this:

sqlite-utils rows tableau.db --csv \
   'Admin Site and County Map Site No Info' > tableau.csv

Development

To contribute to this tool, first checkout the code. Then create a new virtual environment:

cd tableau-to-sqlite
python -mvenv venv
source venv/bin/activate

Or if you are using pipenv:

pipenv shell

Now install the dependencies and tests:

pip install -e '.[test]'

To run the tests:

pytest