Google Chart API Rocks
- 25th Feb 2008
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Fancy including a Google Chart API within your web-pages ? Well, it’s not at all difficult and Google Charting seems somewhat overlooked by Seo’s.
The charting has a limitation of 50,000 queries per day go beyond this and the API ceases to work. Web ready the format returned is PNG as a response to the URL entered. The Google API Chart certainly has functionality with a number of ready charting formats available, you can opt for several image types, including line,bar and pie charts to name but a few.
Webpage inclusion of the API is really easy too,just embed the URL with an <img> tag. Rendering is done automatically within the webpage.
Go check Google Charting out today.
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Actually - nitpicking here - rendering the actual image is done on Google’s servers, the web page only shows the image request.
This looks fancy and really simple. But I think I prefer a PHP solution. Don’t like having Google all over my page. I like my independence ;).
This does look good Dan. This is good timing, I’m looking for a dynamic charting option for a project at the moment. I’m going to give Google charts a look and see if it fits the bill.
pretty handy if you dont have GD library installed