How to get coordinates from a R plotly figure

Question

I have been struggling like mad to solve an apparently basic question. Imagine you have a scatter plot, with say ... 10 markers. I suppose this plot has been generated usin

Answer 1

The solution by Maximilian does not work on Plotly.js versions later than 1.42.0. Trying to fetch

var bg = document.getElementsByClassName('bg')[0];

returns undefined. The solution works using version 1.41.3.

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