Metadata API: getting started and extracting metadata into a Tableau workbook

In this tutorial we introduce the Metadata API at a high level and demonstrate how to use Tableau's GraphQL user interface to fetch metadata about your Tableau Online or Tableau Server environment. When we query the Metadata API using GraphQL, it returns data in JSON format. In this tutorial, we walk through a quick and easy way to put that JSON data into a Tableau workbook so we can interact with the results. Metadata includes information such as workbook names, upstream datasources, content owners, upstream databases, downstream views, and much more. Metadata API documentation: https://help.tableau.com/current/api/metadata_api/en-us/index.html Here's our blog post on getting started with the Metadata API, if you like written step-by-step tutorials: https://towardsdatascience.com/tableau-server-impact-analysis-reports-accessing-metadata-9e08e5fb5633