# Is there any useful Kibana Dashboard API or Elastic API to read Dashboards/Visualizations from Kibana GUI?

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**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [August 29, 2022, 6:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-any-useful-kibana-dashboard-api-or-elastic-api-to-read-dashboards-visualizations-from-kibana-gui/313123 "2022-08-29T06:28:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ayushi\_bhardwaj](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ayushi_bhardwaj/32/109915_2.png) [@Ayushi\_bhardwaj](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ayushi_bhardwaj)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 6:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-any-useful-kibana-dashboard-api-or-elastic-api-to-read-dashboards-visualizations-from-kibana-gui/313123/1 "2022-08-29T06:28:43Z")

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Is there any useful API to read Dashboards/Visualizations from Kibana GUI ? I want to read dashboards from Kibana GUI using Python for automation purpose My Kibana version is v 7.16.2

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**Author:** ![flash1293](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/flash1293/32/41227_2.png) [@flash1293](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/flash1293)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 9:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-any-useful-kibana-dashboard-api-or-elastic-api-to-read-dashboards-visualizations-from-kibana-gui/313123/2 "2022-08-29T09:10:40Z")

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For best support I suggest using the export/import APIs: [Export objects API | Kibana Guide [master] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/master/saved-objects-api-export.html)

They work with ndjson which is fairly easy to automate.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2022, 9:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-any-useful-kibana-dashboard-api-or-elastic-api-to-read-dashboards-visualizations-from-kibana-gui/313123/3 "2022-09-26T09:11:09Z")

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