How to refresh data in a Plot over a Web API #2013
              
                
                  
                  
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| I would like to refresh my Framework project webpage and have one of my Observable Plots refresh it's data immediately, by fetching from a Web REST API e.g. Google Analytics. Is this possible or can my Plot only use data that was available during the build? Thank you. | 
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| here's an example that fetches live data and plots it: (note that there is a fallback in case the live data source fails.) source code: | 
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here's an example that fetches live data and plots it:
https://observablehq.observablehq.cloud/pangea/varia/covid-sumeau
(note that there is a fallback in case the live data source fails.)
source code:
https://github.com/Fil/pangea/blob/main/src/varia/covid-sumeau.md?plain=1