# Object Tracking

**URL:** <https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/object-tracking/8263>\
**Category:** 🤝  Community Help\
**Created:** [January 15, 2025, 10:49pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/object-tracking/8263 "2025-01-15T22:49:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![pnewell4](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discuss.roboflow.com/pnewell4/32/6376_2.png) [@pnewell4](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/pnewell4)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2025, 10:49pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/object-tracking/8263/1 "2025-01-15T22:49:44Z")

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Can a Roboflow _Workflow_ track an object?  
Let’s say I want to track the tennis ball in a tennis match to count the rally length. I don’t need Roboflow to do the logic of determining whether a ball was returned, but if it could get the coordinates of the path along which the ball traveled, I could handle the volley logic in the application.  
I’ve seen plenty of examples that do this, but they all seem to be self-hosted solutions

thanks!

- **Project Type:** Object Detection
- **Operating System & Browser:** (not relevant)
- **Project Universe Link or Workspace/Project ID:** [Sign in to Roboflow](https://app.roboflow.com/wall-ball)

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**Author:** ![Emily](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discuss.roboflow.com/emily/32/3014_2.png) [@Emily](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/Emily)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 1:17pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/object-tracking/8263/2 "2025-01-16T13:17:59Z")

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Hi there,

Are you looking to run analysis on a realtime video, or will you be running on video files?

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**Author:** ![pnewell4](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discuss.roboflow.com/pnewell4/32/6376_2.png) [@pnewell4](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/pnewell4)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 1:30pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/object-tracking/8263/3 "2025-01-16T13:30:22Z")

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ideally realtime, but I’m ok starting with uploading as an mvp

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/roboflow1/original/1X/bb6edbfa56d0cf2ee603f061e9e09103502cc8cc.png) [@system](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 1:31pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/object-tracking/8263/4 "2025-02-06T13:31:02Z")

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