# Direct database integration?

**URL:** <https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/direct-database-integration/44515>\
**Category:** Coding\
**Tags:** data\
**Created:** [April 7, 2025, 6:08pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/direct-database-integration/44515 "2025-04-07T18:08:08Z")\
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You could use daisy chaining to send limited summary data to your website or upload summary data to the shelf and access it from a separate experiment on Pavlovia. I don’t think there’s a way to access the full data without downloading it.

> [@Wakefield's Daily Tips](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/wakefields-daily-tips/43371/35):
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> Daisy Chaining Daisy chaining means going from one web application to another in a single participant session. It normally requires passing the values of one or more variables from one app. to the next so that the data can be matched. There are two aspects to consider. The first is sending values TO Pavlovia. I highly recommend that you send a value for participant (without changing the spelling or capitalisation) since this value will start the data file and log file names. A column for sessi…

> [@Wakefield's Daily Tips](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/wakefields-daily-tips/43371/36):
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> How to use the Pavlovia Shelf If you want to store and reuse information during a single session, you should just use a variable (such as a list or dictionary). On the other hand, if you want to store information for future sessions (either by the same participant in a longitudinal study or different participants) then the solution online is to use the Pavlovia Shelf. The Shelf is not designed for real-time interactions between participants so it should not be used accessed within an Each Frame…

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