So my app needed to update every 10 to 20 seconds to see changes on a local file. I am using streamlit to process and visualise data from test equipment and I do not want the user to have to press the refresh button every time. I tried st.experimental_rerun() and it is awesome for some things, but …

Hi @Ruben_S , @kmcgrady has created a custom component called Streamlit Autorefresh to solve exactly this problem! :slight_smile: Here are the links to the announcement and GitHub repo: Streamlit Autorefresh GitHub - kmcgrady/streamlit-autorefresh: An autorefresh component for Streamlit apps Hap…

Thanks for the feedback! Sadly I got following error: To use Custom Components in Streamlit, you need to install PyArrow. Unfortunately, PyArrow does not yet support Python 3.9. Downgrading to 3.8 is clearly a possible fix, but for now I will refrain as it might affect other things.

Cross posting from the autorefresh post, but When Python 3.9 was released, PyArrow (which facilitates a serialization of pandas dataframes) did not support it. We added this error to inform users of this. It seems to be addressed, and we have removed it for the next release. You can try out pip inst…

Automatically refresh page

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snehankekre July 12, 2021, 9:11am 2

Hi @Ruben_S,

@kmcgrady has created a custom component called Streamlit Autorefresh to solve exactly this problem!

Here are the links to the announcement and GitHub repo:

Streamlit Autorefresh
GitHub - kmcgrady/streamlit-autorefresh: An autorefresh component for Streamlit apps

Happy Streamlit’ing!
Snehan

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