# Plot data located in external file?

**URL:** <https://community.plotly.com/t/plot-data-located-in-external-file/662>\
**Category:** plotly.js\
**Created:** [March 17, 2016, 4:49pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/plot-data-located-in-external-file/662 "2016-03-17T16:49:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![chris-toph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b4bc9f/32.png) [@chris-toph](https://community.plotly.com/u/chris-toph)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2016, 4:49pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/plot-data-located-in-external-file/662/1 "2016-03-17T16:49:35Z")

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Could someone show me the html with java script for making a simple scatter plot with data stored in an external file (e.g. .csv)?  
Using the plotly.js library

Many thanks for your support and sharing.  
Christoph

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**Author:** ![chris-toph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b4bc9f/32.png) [@chris-toph](https://community.plotly.com/u/chris-toph)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2016, 8:52am UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/plot-data-located-in-external-file/662/3 "2016-03-18T08:52:37Z")

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Thanks Abalter for the link, I’ll try.  
But if someone could give me a complete example html+javascript and tell me which libraries I have to install or to link to, would be grateful.  
I’m a novice in javascript…