Embedding and sharing externally

Metabase offers the ability to make questions and dashboards publicly available, meaning they can be shared with anyone – not just users with Metabase accounts. The thing I like most about this feature is that it lets you use all of Metabase's functionality and their visualization library externally. If you've ever tried to create your own interactive data visualization from scratch on a website, you will know that it's not simple. That's why it's nice to know that we can stand on the shoulders of Metabase to make it easy.

There are two ways you can share Metabase questions and dashboards externally: via public URLs and by embedding them on external websites. We'll start off learning about the first method: sharing via public URLs.

Publicly sharing questions and dashboard

Let's imagine our marketing team is running a contest where our top customer earns free pickles and pies for life. They've announced...