# Getting Animcurve Names

**URL:** https://forum.highend3d.com/t/getting-animcurve-names/1176
**Category:** Maya
**Tags:** mel
**Created:** [February 6, 2009, 8:08pm UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/getting-animcurve-names/1176 "2009-02-06T20:08:00Z")
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### Author: ![user\_deleted](https://forum.highend3d.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/35a633/32.png) [@user\_deleted](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/user_deleted)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2009, 8:08pm UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/getting-animcurve-names/1176/1 "2009-02-06T20:08:00Z")

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does anyone know how to get the animCurve's node name for a specific attribute?

Looks like maya gives them generic namesl like animCurveTL77 etc.  
say I have pSphere1 and I want to get the animcurve name for translate x?

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### Author: ![gmask](https://forum.highend3d.com/user_avatar/forum.highend3d.com/gmask/32/192_2.png) [@gmask](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/gmask)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2009, 8:26pm UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/getting-animcurve-names/1176/2 "2009-02-06T20:26:57Z")

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listConnections -c on ball.ty

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### Author: ![user\_deleted](https://forum.highend3d.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/35a633/32.png) [@user\_deleted](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/user_deleted)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2009, 10:22pm UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/getting-animcurve-names/1176/3 "2009-02-06T22:22:38Z")

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ok thanks