Add data to an existing trace using fileopt='extend'

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Extend (or append) data instead of update

The answer appears to be “no.” As brad previously stated in this thread: [image] brad: If you manually play around with the Plotly.js library, you’ll see that Plotly.extendTraces is only intended to extend existing traces. That is, any (and all) keys (e.g. x or y ) must be array attributes. It seems that trying to set “color” (which is set in the “marker” dictionary of a trace) when extending a trace will invoke a similar error as when trying to set name. Somebody please correct me i…

Extending data to the same plot

Hello, I’m new to plotly and I’m trying to update a plot (a single line that has a new point every time) when I receive my data. The ting is, I want to start plotting before receiving all my data points and update ‘real-time’ when I get them. The only thing close I have managed to do is: import plotly.plotly as py from plotly.graph_objs import * i=0 while i<10: new_data = dict(x=[3+i,4+i], y=[3+i,4+i] ) data = [ new_data ] i = i+1 plot_url = py.plot(data, filename='extend pl…

What is the most performant way to update a graph with new data?

Is there a way to do this with Python? I am currently looking for an answer to the same question.