Overview

The External Client API provides programmatic access to Tableau Studio (formerly known as Tableau Desktop) authoring actions. Its operations are mirrored in tools in Tableau MCP

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In this guide

This guide offers the API Reference and Troubleshooting.

The categories of operations in this API are:

• Application
• Dashboards
• Service
• Site
• Storyboards
• Workbook
• Worksheets

Helper script

You can download an example call-studio-api.py helper script. Usage is covered in the Tableau Studio Developer Guide .

This script gets the baseUrl and token required for a REST call to the API and simplifies making a call, For instance, to get a list of available workbooks you would use:

python call-studio-api.py GET v0/site/workbooks

Additional Resources

• Tableau Developer Documentation
• Tableau Community