Dataclips are web tool provided by Heroku that allows you to share the results of your queries in a Postgres database in a simple way. You can share the URL of the results with anyone, and they can view or download the results in JSON, CSV, or Microsoft Excel formats.
Heroku dataclips also provide an API end point, which is an amazing feature that quickly creates prototyping APIs. Another use case of dataclips is when you use them for decision-making in your business. With dataclips, it is very easy for someone to share an important business query with you, and you are able to edit and work together on this query or just download the query data. It's a great feature to create dashboards in your applications.
This chapter covers the following topics:
Creating dataclips
Sharing dataclips
Interacting with dataclips
Dataclips security
Limitations and additional settings