Re: Important: Google Image Charts will be turned off soon

[Sachin Khambadkone]

Hi,

Yes - we've been using image-charts.com and so far so good !

Sach.

On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 4:26 AM lpedroza via Google Chart API <
google-chart-api@googlegroups.com> wrote:

> HI Sach,
>
> Did you find a suitable solution? We also use Google Image Charts for
> emails and need to find a suitable replacement. Thanks!
>
> Cheers,
> Luis
>
> On Monday, February 25, 2019 at 5:06:11 AM UTC-8, Sachin Khambadkone wrote:
>>
>> Awesome thanks !
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 11:19 PM 'Jon Orwant' via Google Chart API <
>> google-c...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Monday, February 18, 2019 at 10:58:11 PM UTC-5, rs64@gmail.com
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the update Jon.
>>>>
>>>> Question : would you know of any other similar alternative ?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Sach,
>>>
>>> I'm not endorsing these solutions and have no experience with any of
>>> them, but perhaps they'll help you:
>>>
>>>- ChartURL <https://charturl.com/>
>>>- Image-Charts <https://www.image-charts.com/>
>>>- Parse.ly blog post
>>><https://blog.parse.ly/post/46/whatever-it-takes/> on using
>>>PhantomJS and D3.js in email
>>>- Knowtify post
>>>
>>> <https://medium.com/the-data-experience/embed-d3js-charts-in-emails-b7c1cb725154>
>>>  on
>>>how to embed D3.js charts in email
>>>
>>>  Jon
>>>
>>>
>>>> I need to display bar / pie / line charts on emails.
>>>>
>>>> Email clients provide minimalistic JavaScript capability and so using
>>>> any JS-based solution like Google Charts or D3 won't cut it.
>>>>
>>>> Sach.
>>>>
>>>> On Sunday, February 10, 2019 at 4:14:58 AM UTC+5:30, Jon Orwant wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Google Image Charts <https://developers.google.com/chart/image/> --
>>>>> not to be confused with Google Charts
>>>>> <https://developers.google.com/chart/> -- is the free service at
>>>>> chart.googleapis.com that creates static charts.
>>>>>
>>>>> Its deprecation was announced back in 2012
>>>>> <https://developers.googleblog.com/2012/04/changes-to-deprecation-policies-and-api.html>,
>>>>> so in theory nobody should be using it now that it's 2019.
>>>>>
>>>>> Several technical dependencies have made maintaining Google Image
>>>>> Charts unsustainable going forward, so it will be *turned off on
>>>>> March 14, 2019*.
>>>>>
>>>>> There is no effective way to identify or contact users of the service
>>>>> other than this group, so to alert them we will be creating outages: first
>>>>> a short one, and then a longer one.
>>>>>
>>>>> The short outage will be for an hour on *Wednesday, February 13, at
>>>>> approximately 1pm Eastern Standard Time*.
>>>>> The long outage will be for several hours on *Tuesday, March 5, at
>>>>> approximately 10am Eastern Standard Time*.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you are still using Google Image Charts, we recommend:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>-
>>>>>
>>>>>Switching to Google Charts, an actively developed JavaScript
>>>>>library for interactive charts and can render many common chart types 
>>>>> as
>>>>>static PNGs. However, Google Image Charts provides some "charts"
>>>>>that Google Charts does not, such as QR codes, LaTeX equations, and 
>>>>> road
>>>>>signs. For those we have no suggested replacement.
>>>>>-
>>>>>
>>>>>Using another charting library such as D3 <http://d3js.org> or
>>>>>Dygraphs <http://dygraphs.com/> (both JavaScript).
>>>>>-
>>>>>
>>>>>Generating all the charts you'll ever need before March 14 and
>>>>>storing them yourself. (Many users of Google Image Charts create the 
>>>>> same
>>>>>exact chart over and over, which is slower and more wasteful than
>>>>>generating the chart once and storing it locally.)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On a personal note, I've enjoyed maintaining the service over the
>>>>> years, and 

Re: Important: Google Image Charts will be turned off soon

[Sachin Khambadkone]

Awesome thanks !

On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 11:19 PM 'Jon Orwant' via Google Chart API <
google-chart-api@googlegroups.com> wrote:

> On Monday, February 18, 2019 at 10:58:11 PM UTC-5, rs64.sac...@gmail.com
> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for the update Jon.
>>
>> Question : would you know of any other similar alternative ?
>>
>
> Hi Sach,
>
> I'm not endorsing these solutions and have no experience with any of them,
> but perhaps they'll help you:
>
>- ChartURL 
>- Image-Charts 
>- Parse.ly blog post  on
>using PhantomJS and D3.js in email
>- Knowtify post
>
> 
>  on
>how to embed D3.js charts in email
>
>  Jon
>
>
>> I need to display bar / pie / line charts on emails.
>>
>> Email clients provide minimalistic JavaScript capability and so using any
>> JS-based solution like Google Charts or D3 won't cut it.
>>
>> Sach.
>>
>> On Sunday, February 10, 2019 at 4:14:58 AM UTC+5:30, Jon Orwant wrote:
>>>
>>> Google Image Charts  -- not
>>> to be confused with Google Charts 
>>> -- is the free service at chart.googleapis.com that creates static
>>> charts.
>>>
>>> Its deprecation was announced back in 2012
>>> ,
>>> so in theory nobody should be using it now that it's 2019.
>>>
>>> Several technical dependencies have made maintaining Google Image Charts
>>> unsustainable going forward, so it will be *turned off on March 14,
>>> 2019*.
>>>
>>> There is no effective way to identify or contact users of the service
>>> other than this group, so to alert them we will be creating outages: first
>>> a short one, and then a longer one.
>>>
>>> The short outage will be for an hour on *Wednesday, February 13, at
>>> approximately 1pm Eastern Standard Time*.
>>> The long outage will be for several hours on *Tuesday, March 5, at
>>> approximately 10am Eastern Standard Time*.
>>>
>>> If you are still using Google Image Charts, we recommend:
>>>
>>>
>>>-
>>>
>>>Switching to Google Charts, an actively developed JavaScript library
>>>for interactive charts and can render many common chart types as static 
>>> PNGs.
>>>However, Google Image Charts provides some "charts" that Google Charts 
>>> does
>>>not, such as QR codes, LaTeX equations, and road signs. For those we have
>>>no suggested replacement.
>>>-
>>>
>>>Using another charting library such as D3  or
>>>Dygraphs  (both JavaScript).
>>>-
>>>
>>>Generating all the charts you'll ever need before March 14 and
>>>storing them yourself. (Many users of Google Image Charts create the same
>>>exact chart over and over, which is slower and more wasteful than
>>>generating the chart once and storing it locally.)
>>>
>>>
>>> On a personal note, I've enjoyed maintaining the service over the years,
>>> and I'm happy to have watched the much more powerful Google Charts leapfrog
>>> it in capability.
>>>
>>> Jon
>>>
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Re: Important: Google Image Charts will be turned off soon

[Sachin Khambadkone]

Now that's a far better response than the previous.

Thanks - still scoping out image-charts :-)

Sach.

On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 11:40 PM  wrote:

> @Sachin it's because you Google Image Charts "t:" format, your dataset is
> 45,49,1597 in "t:" format, thus it means that "values above 100 are
> truncated to 100" (both valid in Google Image Charts and Image-Charts
> documentation).
>
> However in Image-Charts.com we implemented what we call the "awesome data
> format
> <https://documentation.image-charts.com/reference/data-format/#awesome-text-format>"
> ("a:") that does not truncate values higher than 100:
>
>
> https://image-charts.com/chart?cht=p=a:45,49,1587=300x250=FEA0A0,93,99CB99=45%7C49%7C1587=N,77,0,,12,,c
>
>
> <https://image-charts.com/chart?cht=p=a:45,49,1587=300x250=FEA0A0,FFFF93,99CB99=N,77,0,,12,,c>
>
>
> Enjoy!
>
>
> On Saturday, March 9, 2019 at 11:11:36 AM UTC+1, Sachin Khambadkone wrote:
>>
>> Ah apologies - I wasn't aware image-charts.com was setup to simply mimic
>> google as closely as possible.
>>
>> Thanks for the response - guess I'll have to look elsewhere,
>> Sach.
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 2:41 PM  wrote:
>>
>>> We've looked into this and the rendering is the same (proportions are
>>> equal):
>>>
>>> Image-Charts rendering
>>>
>>>
>>> https://image-charts.com/chart?cht=p=t:45,49,1587=300x250=FEA0A0,93,99CB99=45%7C49%7C1587=N,77,0,,12,,c=
>>>
>>>
>>> <https://image-charts.com/chart?cht=p=t:45,49,1587=300x250=FEA0A0,93,99CB99=45%7C49%7C1587=N,77,0,,12,,c=>
>>>
>>>
>>> vs
>>>
>>>
>>> Google-Image Charts rendering
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> https://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=p=t:45,49,1587=300x250=FEA0A0,93,99CB99=45%7C49%7C1587=N,77,0,,12,,c
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> <https://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=p=t:45,49,1587=300x250=FEA0A0,93,99CB99=45%7C49%7C1587=N,77,0,,12,,c>
>>>
>>>
>>>  (also note the missing 1 in the 1587 label, that Image-Charts.com
>>> handles for you )
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Friday, March 8, 2019 at 10:06:25 AM UTC+1, Sachin Khambadkone wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I've been scoping out image-charts.com and so far so good.
>>>>
>>>> However, I did stumble upon a bug today :
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://image-charts.com/chart?cht=p=t:45,49,1587=300x250=FEA0A0,93,99CB99=45|49|1587=N,77,0,,12,,c=
>>>> <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fimage-charts.com%2Fchart%3Fcht%3Dp%26chd%3Dt%3A45%2C49%2C1587%26chs%3D300x250%26chco%3DFEA0A0%2C93%2C99CB99%26chl%3D45%257C49%257C1587%26chm%3DN%2C77%2C0%2C%2C12%2C%2Cc%26chan%3D=D=1=AFQjCNFQ0Vz_qB_qskgS9rNbz7824OSi0A>
>>>>
>>>> Sachin.
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 10:37 PM  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> We've made Image-charts.com years ago as a drop-in replacement for
>>>>> Google Image Charts and we support *animated charts* (gifs) as well!
>>>>>
>>>>> Try us, it's free (with a small watermark) and we've got paying
>>>>> subscriptions <https://www.image-charts.com/> to remove the watermark
>>>>> :)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> <https://image-charts.com/chart?chs=700x300=x,y=2018%7C2017%7C2015=t:60,40,20=pa=Image%7CCharts%7CRocks=ps0-0,lg,45,ffeb3b,0.2,f443367C,1%7Cps0-1,lg,45,8bc34a,0.2,0096887C,1%7Cps0-2,lg,45,EA469E,0.2,03A9F47C,1=google-chart-api-rZtHTyYgyXI>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> <https://image-charts.com/chart?cht=bvg=t:10,15,25,30,40,80=700x300=x,y=0:%7CMarch%20%2718%7CApril%20%2718%7CMay%20%2718%7CJune%20%2718%7CJuly%20%2718%7CAugust%20%2718%7C=Visitors%20(in%20thousands)=b0,lg,90,05B142,1,0CE858,0.2=1N**K=Visitors%20report=0,0,10,10=%7C%7C%7C%7C+33%25%20!%7Cx2%20!=google-chart-api-rZtHTyYgyXI>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> <https://image-charts.com/chart?cht=lc=s:ceAELfJHHHUjueuudde=76A4FB=2.0,0.0,0.0=x,y=700x200=20,51=google-image-charts>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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