https://community.databricks.com/t5/get-started-discussions/read-file-from-local-machine-my-computer-and-create-a-dataframe/m-p/98980#M4577 <P>I want to create a notebook and add a widget which will allow the user to select a file from local machine(my computer) and read the contents of the file and create a dataframe. is it possible? and how? in dbutils.widgets i dont have any options for file uploading or file reading. is there an alternate way? please help.</P> Fri, 15 Nov 2024 18:00:40 GMT khaansaab 2024-11-15T18:00:40Z https://community.databricks.com/t5/get-started-discussions/read-file-from-local-machine-my-computer-and-create-a-dataframe/m-p/98980#M4577 <P>I want to create a notebook and add a widget which will allow the user to select a file from local machine(my computer) and read the contents of the file and create a dataframe. is it possible? and how? in dbutils.widgets i dont have any options for file uploading or file reading. is there an alternate way? please help.</P> Fri, 15 Nov 2024 18:00:40 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/get-started-discussions/read-file-from-local-machine-my-computer-and-create-a-dataframe/m-p/98980#M4577 khaansaab 2024-11-15T18:00:40Z https://community.databricks.com/t5/get-started-discussions/read-file-from-local-machine-my-computer-and-create-a-dataframe/m-p/98982#M4578 <P>Hi&nbsp;<a href="https://community.databricks.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/132610">@khaansaab</a>&nbsp;,</P><P>Currently, there is now out of the box mechanism that will allow you to that. As a workaround,you can create a UC volume and tell your users to upload files into that volume. Then you can create notebook that will have file_name parameter and based on that parameter it will load file to a dataframe from that volume.<BR /><BR /></P> Fri, 15 Nov 2024 18:08:22 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/get-started-discussions/read-file-from-local-machine-my-computer-and-create-a-dataframe/m-p/98982#M4578 szymon_dybczak 2024-11-15T18:08:22Z