# Real-time without Streaming API?

**URL:** <https://community.plotly.com/t/real-time-without-streaming-api/3306>\
**Category:** plotly.js\
**Created:** [February 8, 2017, 2:47pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/real-time-without-streaming-api/3306 "2017-02-08T14:47:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![etienne](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/community.plotly.com/etienne/32/17_2.png) [@etienne](https://community.plotly.com/u/etienne)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 3:01pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/real-time-without-streaming-api/3306/2 "2017-02-08T15:01:40Z")

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`Plotly.extendTraces` is what you what to use.

See previous post [How to extend traces properly in js](https://community.plotly.com/t/how-to-extend-traces-properly-in-js/1777) for an example.

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