# Quick viewer for Qiime 2 artifacts

**URL:** https://forum.qiime2.org/t/quick-viewer-for-qiime-2-artifacts/2051
**Category:** Ideas and Suggestions
**Tags:** quality, feature-table
**Created:** [December 1, 2017, 7:55pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/quick-viewer-for-qiime-2-artifacts/2051 "2017-12-01T19:55:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![Gluque](https://forum.qiime2.org/user_avatar/forum.qiime2.org/gluque/32/19982_2.png) [@Gluque](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/Gluque)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2017, 7:55pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/quick-viewer-for-qiime-2-artifacts/2051/1 "2017-12-01T19:55:39Z")

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Hi there!

For those who -like us- has several restrictions moving data out of our servers, here in our lab we have develop a tool called [qiime\_2\_ll\_quick\_viewer](https://github.com/leylabmpi/qiime_2_ll_quick_viewer) which you can use to open your Qiime 2 visualization artifacts (\*.qzv) _in situ_.

Best,

Guillermo Luque

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### Author: ![ebolyen](https://forum.qiime2.org/user_avatar/forum.qiime2.org/ebolyen/32/11_2.png) [@ebolyen](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/ebolyen)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2017, 8:03pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/quick-viewer-for-qiime-2-artifacts/2051/2 "2017-12-01T20:03:24Z")

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Hey @Gluque!

Thanks for the link to your team's tool!

> [@Gluque](#):
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> For those who -like us- has several restrictions moving data out of our servers,

It sounds like that definitely stops you from using `qiime tools view` and `view.qiime2.org` since you wouldn't be able to download it to your PC or make a link from it.

Perhaps the ability to start a server on a port could make it into `qiime tools view` someday to suite your use-case better!

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While I know this isn't what you are talking about, I do want to take a moment to emphasize for anyone else reading (since this is often a point of confusion) that `view.qiime2.org` **never sends your data anywhere**. We honestly couldn't afford the bandwidth, so that site is more of a super-easy to install program that _happens_ to run in your browser.

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### Author: ![thermokarst](https://forum.qiime2.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/8e7dd6/32.png) [@thermokarst](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/thermokarst)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2017, 9:00pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/quick-viewer-for-qiime-2-artifacts/2051/3 "2017-12-01T21:00:59Z")

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> [@ebolyen](#):
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> [view.qiime2.org](http://view.qiime2.org) never sends your data anywhere.

And by "anywhere," we mean your data doesn't leave the computer that you are loading [https://view.qiime2.org](https://view.qiime2.org) on!

If you are interested in how we make that happen, please check out this presentation from earlier this year:

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/dkSfXRLuJng/maxresdefault.jpg "PLOTCON 2017: Matthew Dillon, Interactive web-based visualization for microbiome science") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkSfXRLuJng)

In this talk I go into a little bit of detail regarding [q2view](https://github.com/qiime2/q2view) (the application behind the scenes for the serverless [view.qiime2.org](http://view.qiime2.org)), as well as some other high-level details about QIIME 2. Thanks!