Connect Tableau Public to Firebase using Tableau Web Data Connector

Question

I have some data hosted in Google Firebase and I need to make some analysis using Tableau Public (free version). And the Tableau data should be updated daily.

I read that a possible solution could be using a Tableau Web Data Connector but I'm not sure of this. If I use the Tableau WDC is there a way to schedule the data update? As far as I have understood a Tableau WCD is an intermediate page that downloads the data for example from a rest API and then put them into a tableau page. Is it the correct way to achieve my goal?

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Answer 1

This is not achievable through Tableau Public.

If you were using Tableau Desktop, Currently as of 05/16/2018, there is no official connector for firebase. Also, I do not see third-party Tableau Web Data connector for firebase yet.

A Tableau WDC is a html page consisting of javascript hosted on a webserver and grabs data for you through http and returns it to the machine where you entered in the URL for the specified WDC.

An alternative would be to import your firebase data into BigQuery. Then, accessing your data from there.