pyecharts-snapshot 0.2.0

renders pyecharts output as image

News - 16.04.2019

Since 0.2.0, NO LONGER, phantomjs is required! NO LONGER, it supports python 2.7

BUT, the capability to render pyecharts in a script has been merged into pyecharts 1.0.0. And the dependency on phantomjs has been sprawn as: snapshot-phantomjs .

If you love to use ‘snapshot’ command line, please continue to use this project.

Introduction

pyecharts-snapshot renders the output of pyecharts/echarts.js as a png, jpeg, gif, eps, svg image, raw base64 encoding or a pdf file at command line.

Usage

Get png:

$ snapshot render.html

And you will get:

Get pdf:

$ snapshot render.html pdf

And you will get:

And here the code to generate it

Get svg:

$ snapshot render.html svg

Please be aware that render.html should have configure echarts to do svg rendering. This library, being stupid, does not make canvas rendered image as svg rendered. Here is an example svg file.

Usage details

Command line options:

$ snapshot output.html [png|jpeg|gif|svg|pdf] [delay] [pixel ratio]

where:

delay tells pyecharts-snapshot to take a snapshot after some time measured in seconds. It is needed only when your snapshot is partial because the chart animation takes long than 1.5 second(default). pixel ratio tells pyecharts-snapshot to use a different pixel ratio when generate the image. It defaults to 2.

Programmatical usage is simple:

...
somechart.render(path='cool_snapshot.png')  # delay=1, pixel_ratio=3) 1 second delay, 3 as pixel ratio

where delay as an optional parameter can be given to specify delay_in_seconds.

Coffee

Please buy me a coffee if you think this library helped.

Installation

Package installation

You can install it via pip:

$ pip install pyecharts-snapshot
$ pyppeteer-install

or clone it and install it:

$ git clone http://github.com/pyecharts/pyecharts-snapshot.git
$ cd pyecharts-snapshot
$ python setup.py install
$ pyppeteer-install

Note

pyppeteer-install is recommended but optional. Your first ever run of snapshot command will invoke pyppeteer-install. This command will download Chrominium, about 100MB

Test status

Fully tested on pypy, python 3.5, 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8-dev.

Constraints

Only one image at a time. No 3D image support

Design Considerations

1. Ghost.Py: very hard to install on my own. Dropped

Maintenance Instructions

1. install pyecharts-snapshot
2. make demo
3. take screenshots of grid.pdf and snapshot.pdf in examples folder

Contributors in alphabetical order

1. chengjiandong
2. chfw Author

Change log

0.2.0 - 17.04.2019

Added

1. use pyppeteer, pythonic puppeteer for rendering pyecharts image

Removed

1. python 2, 3.5- support
2. no more phantomjs dependency
3. programmatic rendering capability is removed. NO longer it is integrated with pyecharts

0.1.10 - 16.12.2018

Added

1. #33: Support base64 encoding

0.1.9 - 13.11.2018

Added

1. Support eps

Updated

1. Loosen the requirement on lml

0.1.8 - 12.09.2018

Fixed

1. #28: pixel_ratio as a parameter

0.1.7 - 31.05.2018

Fixed

1. #23: phantomjs on windows does not like absolute path but file uri formatted ones

0.1.6 - 16.05.2018

Updated

1. use system temp file instead of current working folder for tmp files

0.1.5 - 11.04.2018

Updated

1. better error verbose when phantomjs fails to generate output

0.1.4 - 26.03.2018

Added

1. Tighter integration with pyecharts 0.4.2. SnapshotEnvironment extends the rendering capability of pyecharts
2. #16: phantomjs check fails on windows
3. #14: if the output file name has a path, this library fails over

0.1.3 - 12.03.2018

Added

1. svg support for pyecharts 0.4.0

0.1.2 - 21.12.2017

Updated

1. #9: delay 1.5 seconds

0.1.1 - 17.12.2017

Updated

1. higher resolution screenshots for all platforms: windows and linux.

0.1.0 - 15.12.2017

Updated

1. support Mac OS Retina display, high resolution screenshots

0.0.11 - 2.11.2017

Updated

1. #7: helpful error message on missing phantomjs.

0.0.10 - 23.10.2017

Updated

1. pyexcel pyexcel#105, remove gease from setup_requires, introduced by 0.0.9.

0.0.9 - 21.10.2017

Updated

1. #6: show better

0.0.8 - 08.09.2017

Updated

1. #5: fix

0.0.7 - 26.08.2017

Updated

1. Save the output of pyecharts to gif file

0.0.6 - 25.08.2017

Updated

1. Allow user to specify a custom delay period in seconds. Default is 0.5s

0.0.5 - 22.08.2017

0.0.4 - 19.08.2017

Updated

1. #1: Support

0.0.3 - 19.08.2017

Updated

1. Remove download image arrow on the output file

0.0.2 - 18.08.2017

Added

1. Save the output of pyecharts to pdf file

0.0.1 - 17.08.2017

Added

1. Save the output of pyecharts to png file