Hey everyone, A little late to the party here, but I wanted to let you know about a product my team launched a few months back: ChartURL.com. ChartURL is an alternative to Google Image Charts. It was originally built as an internal tool to solve a need we had for charts in our emails, and then realized that it could be of use to other people.
One thing of note is our `Short URL API` which allows you to POST as much data as you need and get a short URL back. This lets you generate charts with tons of data without having to worry about hitting up against the URL-length limit. We also have an `Encrypted URL` method that allows you to embed the data in the URL just like the Google Image Charts API. Lastly, we're running a pilot program for marketers that allows them to upload CSVs to us and get back an augmented CSV that includes image URLs they can use in with their email marketing software. We also have a concept of a "Template" which lets you design a chart in our web app and then construct a URL with just a reference to the template and the data. The underlying library we use is C3js, so it has a ton of options. Hope this helps! Please respond if you have any questions. I'll be here waiting to respond. On Tuesday, November 27, 2012 at 12:29:13 PM UTC-7, asgallant wrote: > > You can indeed convert the charts to png files (see this thread > <https://groups.google.com/d/topic/google-visualization-api/YTD_JxX_RFc/discussion>). > > Note that you can only do this in browsers that support both SVG and > canvas elements (basically everything except IE < 9). > > On Tuesday, November 27, 2012 2:02:53 PM UTC-5, Michael Fever wrote: >> >> I'm hoping they willl just keep the image charts going. I'm in the same >> boat. Sure the new jsapi charts are great for displaying on a website but >> they are absolute no good if you need to embed into a PDF report. >> TCPDF has its own charting library but its nowhere near as powerful as >> the google API. >> >> Someone was toying around with using HTML5 to write the chart to a canvas >> and then export that canvas to an img somehow.. but I dont know if that >> would work. >> >> Maybe they'll keep the charts alive past 4/20/2015. >> >> >> >> On Monday, May 21, 2012 9:58:05 PM UTC-4, Ben Sinclair wrote: >>> >>> I was using the Image Charts for displaying the charts in a printer >>> friendly PDF file. Is there an alternative to this now that Image >>> Charts are going? >>> >>> Can I somehow make the JavaScript API work in PDFs? >>> >>> I currently use TCPDF (http://www.tcpdf.org/) to generate my PDFs. >>> >>> I did do a Google Search to try find my answer but couldn't really >>> find any answers. >>> >>> Appreciate any input you have ;) >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Visualization API" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-visualization-api. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-visualization-api/e1e29356-61ba-45e3-9d88-962d66917361%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
