How to get python graph output into html webpage directly

Question

I am using different libraries like pandas and numpy for generating a dataframe, which eventually generate a graph.

Now, I need to show this graph into a simple webpage

Answer 1

You may like to save the graph into specific location and write script to read the image file lets say pic.png into HTML. For taking input, you may create a Tabular structure of data and after each input, save the data to a file, lets say file.csv and read it in Python and keep adding values from input.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
df.hist()
plt.savefig('path/to/pic.png')

Now create HTML code to read that image file and output it as you want. I hope this helps.

Answer 2

You can also use Plotly for that. This provides more interactive graphs. Also you can write the generated data in HTML files, apply bootstrap styling.

Check out this tutorial on their website.

Answer 3

The best way to export matplotlib charts to the web browser is to Use mpld3 library. Here is the example.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import mpld3
from mpld3 import plugins
np.random.seed(9615)

# generate df
N = 100
df = pd.DataFrame((.1 * (np.random.random((N, 5)) - .5)).cumsum(0),
                  columns=['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e'],)

# plot line + confidence interval
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.grid(True, alpha=0.3)

for key, val in df.iteritems():
    l, = ax.plot(val.index, val.values, label=key)
    ax.fill_between(val.index,
                    val.values * .5, val.values * 1.5,
                    color=l.get_color(), alpha=.4)

# define interactive legend

handles, labels = ax.get_legend_handles_labels() # return lines and labels
interactive_legend = plugins.InteractiveLegendPlugin(zip(handles,
                                                         ax.collections),
                                                     labels,
                                                     alpha_unsel=0.5,
                                                     alpha_over=1.5, 
                                                     start_visible=True)
plugins.connect(fig, interactive_legend)

ax.set_xlabel('x')
ax.set_ylabel('y')
ax.set_title('Interactive legend', size=20)

mpld3.show()

https://mpld3.github.io/quickstart.html

Answer 4

This depends somewhat on what you mean by showing the graph as html. I can see a couple ways, the first and simplest is to save the figure as a png and then supply the path to the file in the html:

Python code:

import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

s = pd.Series([1, 2, 3])
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
s.plot.bar()
fig.savefig('my_plot.png')

HTML:

<img src='my_plot.png'>

The second way would be to encode the figure as base64. This has the advantage of being portable, and the disadvantage of making very large unwieldy html files. I am not a web programmer, so there may be other caveats as well that I am not aware of

python:

import io
import base64

def fig_to_base64(fig)
    img = io.BytesIO()
    fig.savefig(img, format='png',
                bbox_inches='tight')
    img.seek(0)

    return base64.b64encode(img.getvalue())

encoded = fig_to_base64(fig)
my_html = '<img src="data:image/png;base64, {}">'.format(encoded.decode('utf-8'))

my_html can be passed into you html file, or you can inject it with jinja2 or whatever you use. Here is SO post regarding viewing base64 in html https://stackoverflow.com/a/8499716/3639023 and encoding images as base64 How to convert PIL Image.image object to base64 string?