# Fetching dashboards or plot via API

**URL:** https://community.plotly.com/t/fetching-dashboards-or-plot-via-api/5931
**Category:** 📊 Plotly Python
**Created:** [September 25, 2017, 1:16pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/fetching-dashboards-or-plot-via-api/5931 "2017-09-25T13:16:48Z")
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### Author: ![edmondo1984](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9adbd/32.png) [@edmondo1984](https://community.plotly.com/u/edmondo1984)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2017, 1:16pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/fetching-dashboards-or-plot-via-api/5931/1 "2017-09-25T13:16:48Z")

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We’d like to include specific dashboards or plots in a web application, therefore we would need:

- To query Plotly for saved dashboards or plots
- To append that plot to an existing DOM, in a way that it cannot be accessed without having our API key

Is this possible?