# Replicating Matlab plots

**URL:** https://community.plotly.com/t/replicating-matlab-plots/665
**Category:** plotly.js
**Created:** [March 17, 2016, 7:19pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/replicating-matlab-plots/665 "2016-03-17T19:19:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![abalter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@abalter](https://community.plotly.com/u/abalter)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2016, 7:19pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/replicating-matlab-plots/665/1 "2016-03-17T19:19:33Z")

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I’m a little confused about how the matlab API works. Is there an easy way to replicate a matlab plot in plotly, for instance, by automagically generating the javascript code?

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### Author: ![bidochon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/community.plotly.com/bidochon/32/188_2.png) [@bidochon](https://community.plotly.com/u/bidochon)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2016, 4:23pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/replicating-matlab-plots/665/2 "2016-03-23T16:23:06Z")

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Is it what you are looking for -\> [https://plot.ly/ipython-notebooks/#converting-a-matplotlib-graph-into-an-interactive-graph-inside-an-ipython-notebook](https://plot.ly/ipython-notebooks/#converting-a-matplotlib-graph-into-an-interactive-graph-inside-an-ipython-notebook)