Saving locally | PlotAPI Docs

PlotAPI supports saving visualizations locally. This includes saving to PNG, PDF, SVG, animated MP4, and interactive HTML.

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Let's demonstrate the different output formats we can output to a notebook -- inline!

Save locally or upload to cloud

You can do more within a script/notebook than just saving locally. You can display within a notebook and upload to cloud too!

We'll use the following data to create a Chord diagram in our examples.

from plotapi import Chord 

matrix = [
    [0, 5, 6, 4, 7, 4],
    [5, 0, 5, 4, 6, 5],
    [6, 5, 0, 4, 5, 5],
    [4, 4, 4, 0, 5, 5],
    [7, 6, 5, 5, 0, 4],
    [4, 5, 5, 5, 4, 0],
]

names = ["Action", "Adventure", "Comedy", "Drama", "Fantasy", "Thriller"]

Interactive HTML

Call .to_html(path) to save an interactive visualization locally.

Chord(matrix, names).to_html()

The default path is out.html.

Animated video

Call .to_mp4(path) to save an animated MP4 video of the visualization locally.

Chord(matrix, names).to_mp4()

The default path is out.mp4.

Static image

Call .to_png() to save a static PNG image of the visualization locally.

Chord(matrix, names).to_png()

The default path is out.png.

The image quality can be controlled using the scale parameter. The default is scale=2, and the maximum is scale=5.

Chord(matrix, names).to_png(scale=3)

Portable document (PDF)

Call .to_pdf() to save a portable PDF document of the visualization locally.

Chord(matrix, names).to_pdf()

The default path is out.pdf.

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)

Call .to_svg() to save a static SVG document of the visualization locally.

Chord(matrix, names).to_svg()

The default path is out.svg.