# use mne to read edf

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**Created:** [July 13, 2023, 10:56am UTC](https://mne.discourse.group/t/use-mne-to-read-edf/7231 "2023-07-13T10:56:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![lucky\_cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed8c4c/32.png) [@lucky\_cat](https://mne.discourse.group/u/lucky_cat)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2023, 10:56am UTC](https://mne.discourse.group/t/use-mne-to-read-edf/7231/1 "2023-07-13T10:56:19Z")

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i am new to mne and i have a program which need it. i got some problem when starting using mne. i know that read\_raw\_edf could read edf. but i don`t know how to get some channel’s data from it, espcially the channel ECG which i need. does anyone know how or could tell me how to study this? forgive my english, thanks.

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**Author:** ![mscheltienne](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/mne.discourse.group/mscheltienne/32/827_2.png) [@mscheltienne](https://mne.discourse.group/u/mscheltienne)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2023, 6:54pm UTC](https://mne.discourse.group/t/use-mne-to-read-edf/7231/2 "2023-07-13T18:54:19Z")

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Hello,

Please have a look through the tutorials: [Tutorials — MNE 1.4.2 documentation](https://mne.tools/stable/auto_tutorials/index.html)  
Especially the introductory tutorials.

`read_raw_edf` will return a `Raw` object, used to store continuous recordings. You can then use different methods to interact with this object. API is defined here: [mne.io.Raw — MNE 1.4.2 documentation](https://mne.tools/stable/generated/mne.io.Raw.html)

Mathieu