The June 2024 release of the Hyper API (version 0.0.19484) is available – and it now finally supports Apple Silicon!

Hyper API

For the ones who don’t know: The Hyper API is an API to automate actions with Tableau extracts (.hyper) files. You can use it to create new extract files or to open existing files, and then insert, delete, update, or read data from those files.

Apple Silicon – and more

Every month new updates arrive for the API, but the one for June 2024 is especially exciting for Mac users. It was never possible to develop Python applications without workarounds like Rosetta.

But now – with native aarch64 binaries for macOS – you can now use 

pip install tableauhyperapi

on both x86 and Apple Silicon architectures and it will automatically give you the right package.

Of course the developers introduced some more features:

• A new 32-bit floating point data type for REAL.
• This changes the semantics of several data types! See details in the release notes.
• The regexp_replace function which provides substitution of new text for substrings based on POSIX regular expressions.
• Database file format version 3, which supports 128-bit numerics.

The new release is available on the official download page and PyPI.