What are ways to share a Plotly graph?

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Hello,

Never used Plotly before but interactive graphs would be nice. However, it’s only nice if it’s shareable…

  • Would it be interactive in Jupyter Notebook? If so, if I save a Jupyter Notebook as HTML, would anyone who opens that HTML be able to see an itneractive graph?
  • What are ways to share graphs internally? Is there a way to build an itnernal webhosting thing?

Ideally, my boss could just have a link bookmarked, and everyday, he can check the graph whenever as the data gets updated. I have no webprogramming experience and don’t plan on learning that - so something pre-build would be nice - like jupyter notebooks or something.
If that doesn’t work, what other ways to share?

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Hello @somecut8 welcome to the forums.

I just saved a jupyter notebook as html and the plotly graphs stay interactive.

As far as I know, Dash was built exactly for this.

Dash does not really require html knowlwdge, just general python knowledge.

If you don’t want to code yourself, you might use the tag job-posting here in the forum.

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Hi, I just wanted to mention plotlyshare · PyPI - a package which serves specifically this purpose: share an interactive plot hosted on the internet as a link, without the hassle of having to set up any hosting. It’s 2024 after all!

It uses Deta Space - a free and private app-based ecosystem.
The only setup you need is to install the app on deta, and install the python package.

Here is an example shareable plot: running out of sample names - PlotlyShare

It has some nice QoL features as well, documented in the [github repo](GitHub - plutonium-239/plotlyshare: Link-based sharing of `plotly` plots with a private web app.

Disclaimer: I am the developer of plotlyshare