Use plotly offline to save chart as image file

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I’ve used plotly with great success, and I’ve been able save a chart as an image file with success. Now I’m learning to use plotly offline, both with iPython Notebook and with the generic offline version. But I can’t find any informaton on how to save my offline (iPython Notebook version or otherwise) chart as an image file. Any help would be appreciated.

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To save your image, just hover the mouse slightly above the image/title and you can see the save icon.

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I’m sorry. I probably didn’t make myself clear in my original post. I want this done programmatically. The chart isn’t to be displayed at all. Just saved as an image file.

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I’m also looking for the save possibility in offline mode.

For me empet’s method doesn’t work either, it never finishes with the message of ‘snapshotting is still in progress’.

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same problem here:
I am using plotly offline in an ipython notebook and would like to save/export my plots and tables as pdf, but I did not find the syntax for this anywhere. Help is greatly appreciated!
@ empet and thauta:
this is not working for me either, png-generation fails. In any case I’d prefer pdf.

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It seems that this feature (producing an image file in PDF/PNG/… programatically) is missing. It would be a very nice feature, though…

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Take a look here how to save static images: https://plot.ly/python/static-image-export/

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contacting plotly support resulted in:

  • community members may only export to PNGs Other formats are
    available with the profession plan: https://plot.ly/products/cloud/

  • At the moment it is not possible to programatically export an image while using offline, i.e. confirming @jpp

  • You do have the option to use the camera icon in the mode bar on hover. This worked for me using plotly offline 1.9.3 and chrome, but not Firefox @thauta

at empet: I believe the info you refer to is not working for plotly offline

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Are there plans to add this feature for offline usage? I was hoping to use these in email reports, but can absolutely not send data outside our organization.

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For what it is worth, in PlotlyJS.jl I can get true vector image pdf/eps/svg export as well as configurable png/jpeg exporting by getting the svg data from plotly offline, using librsvg to load that into cairo, and using cairo to render to the desired file type.

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Thanks @sglyon - nice idea. I’ve been using PhantomJS or SlimerJS to programmatically render to a PNG file but it is not perfect (particularly for WebGL figures). The Cairo approach sounds interesting.

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javascript:alert(1)//http://google.com/tests.jpg

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I have used this without the login credentials. it worked. then stopped working I don’t know why.
Edit: I understood now you’re trying to run that kind of command offline. In the link I shared, It uses the online connection.
Such feature offline is not available yet maybe because the Offline stuff was released quite recently… Let’s hope for the best in future.

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Is that true for plotly offline too ? I mean If i am using plotly offline , does clicking to the button generate image locally without going to plotly server ?

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Yes. Image generation via the mode bar is done entirely client side.

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I am also looking for this feature. I have already been using plotly python in offline mode in Jupyter Notebook, but I am unable to save the generated image programmatically.

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+1 Exact same need.
To my opiniion: important feature to make offline mode fully operaionnal!

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Also for me this would be great. +1

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I have a question about 3D plot (3D scatter plot). I need to export it in .U3D or .PRC format. Is that any way to do that?

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That’s not possible at the moment. All possible exporting formats are listed here: https://plot.ly/python/static-image-export/