Content Exploration Methods
Content exploration methods enable you to view:
Search Results: Explore your Tableau content based on relevance to a provided term and filter expression.
Usage Statistics: Get the count of the number of times a user has directly or indirectly accessed a specified content item, or a batch of content items. Satistics are available for workbooks, views, data sources, flows and other Tableau resources. The response contains counts for a variety of time periods, ranging from two weeks up to the resource's lifetime. Suggestions: Get suggestions for autocompletion as a user types, based on matches of their input. Searches across all supported content types for objects relevant to the specified term.
Get content Suggestions
Returns a specified number of suggestions for auto-completion of user input as they type. You can specify content types of suggestions and prioritize recently viewed content.
Version: Available in API 3.19 (Tableau Online March 2023/ Server 2023.1) and later. Version Overview
Permissions: Users can get suggestions for contents that they own or have permissions. Permissions Overview
License: No additional license required.
Access Scope: Not available. Tableau Cloud | Tableau Server-Windows | Tableau Server-Linux
GET {server}/api/-/suggestions
Get content search results
Searches across all supported content types for objects relevant to the search expression specified in the querystring of the request URI.
Version: Available in API 3.16 ( Tableau Cloud June 2022 / Server 2022.3) and later. Version Overview
Permissions: Search results will be limited to those objects that the user has permissions to access. Permissions Overview
License: No additional license required.
Access Scope: Not available. Tableau Cloud | Tableau Server-Windows | Tableau Server-Linux
GET {server}/api/-/search
Get batch content usage statistics
Get usage statistics for multiple content items. The batch of can include multiple content types.
Version: Available in API 3.17 ( Tableau Cloud December 2022) and later. Not available for Tableau Server. Version Overview
Permissions: Tableau administrators can get statistics for all content they administer. Other users can get Permissions Overview
License: No additional license required.
Access Scope: Not available. Tableau Cloud | Tableau Server-Windows | Tableau Server-Linux
GET {server}/api/-/content/usage-stats
Get usage statistics for content item
Gets the usage statistics for a Tableau content item, specified by LUID and content type, such as workbook, datasource, or flow.
Version: Available in API 3.17 ( Tableau Cloud December 2022) and later. Not available for Tableau Server. Version Overview
Permissions: Tableau administrators can get statistics for all content they administer. Other users can get Permissions Overview
License: No additional license required.
Access Scope: Not available. Tableau Cloud | Tableau Server-Windows | Tableau Server-Linux
GET {server}/api/-/content/usage-stats/{type}/{luid}