# Reader Inquiry

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/reader-inquiry/12916
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [September 23, 2023, 10:48pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/reader-inquiry/12916 "2023-09-23T22:48:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![cooldogs818](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/cooldogs818/32/11331_2.png) [@cooldogs818](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cooldogs818)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2023, 10:48pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/reader-inquiry/12916/1 "2023-09-23T22:48:45Z")

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I am relatively new to Paraview and am looking to make a custom HDF5 reader plugin for data that I am working with through Python. Any help on this would be appreciated.

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### Author: ![cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/cory.quammen/32/11193_2.png) [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2023, 6:46pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/reader-inquiry/12916/2 "2023-09-24T18:46:53Z")

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ParaView binaries from [paraview.org](http://paraview.org) come with [h5py](https://www.h5py.org/) which you can use in either a **Programmable Source** or better (IMO) a [Python Algorithm plugin](https://docs.paraview.org/en/latest/ReferenceManual/pythonProgrammableFilter.html#python-algorithm).