Plotly.py: Exporting animations to GIF/PNG/SVG

[EmilienDupont]

Hello,

The recent animation features are great! However, I was wondering if it is possible to export these animations to e.g. gif format? I had a look through the code and it does not look like this is possible at the moment. Is this something you plan to implement?

Thank you!

[jackparmer]

@EmilienDupont Good question. There's no automated, quick way to do this right now through Plotly. You could write a utility in Python that saves each frame as an image, then stitch those images together using Pillow's gifmaker:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24688802/saving-an-animated-gif-in-pillow

I have not tried this myself, but it's the first thing I'd try 👍

[EmilienDupont]

Thank you @jackparmer, will give it a try

[raulf2012]

Just to add my 2¢, the solution proposed by @jackparmer would presumably not capture the animated transitions between frames

My workaround is to just use a screen capture/GIF making program (ScreenToGif) to manually create a GIF of the animation

Not the most elegant solution but it'll work for now

[soerendip]

Yes, that should be build in. :-)