How to give colorscale to Sankey plot

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Hello,
I have a sankey for which I want to give colors to links w.r.t a defined colorscales like “blues_r”. I am unable to find how to assign a colorscale for links. I am able to give different colors to links using their normalized values but that also has its own drawbacks that i can’t give a colorbar for the figure.

Take the plotly example given in the documentation


import plotly.graph_objects as go
import urllib, json

url = 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/plotly/plotly.js/master/test/image/mocks/sankey_energy.json'
response = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
data = json.loads(response.read())

# override gray link colors with 'source' colors
opacity = 0.4
# change 'magenta' to its 'rgba' value to add opacity
data['data'][0]['node']['color'] = ['rgba(255,0,255, 0.8)' if color == "magenta" else color for color in data['data'][0]['node']['color']]
data['data'][0]['link']['color'] = [data['data'][0]['node']['color'][src].replace("0.8", str(opacity))
                                    for src in data['data'][0]['link']['source']]

fig = go.Figure(data=[go.Sankey(
    valueformat = ".0f",
    valuesuffix = "TWh",
    # Define nodes
    node = dict(
      pad = 15,
      thickness = 15,
      line = dict(color = "black", width = 0.5),
      label =  data['data'][0]['node']['label']
    ),
    # Add links
    link = dict(
      source =  data['data'][0]['link']['source'],
      target =  data['data'][0]['link']['target'],
      value =  data['data'][0]['link']['value'],
      label =  data['data'][0]['link']['label'],
      color =  data['data'][0]['link']['color'] 
))])

fig.update_layout(title_text="Energy forecast for 2050<br>Source: Department of Energy & Climate Change, Tom Counsell via <a href='https://bost.ocks.org/mike/sankey/'>Mike Bostock</a>",
                  font_size=10)
fig.show()

rather than assigning different colors i would like to assign a continuos_color_scale from the predefined colorscales based on the link.values

Thankyou.