Embed charts in webpages with one of our simplest APIs yet

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50 points·terpua··11 comments

Thank you.

This sort of product is what I love about Google. Ridiculously simple, easy, and useful. It is a tiny effort for such a huge company, but it saves me having to work with my own charting libs for various little projects.

You said everything I could say about it :)

Google Charts meets Pac-Man http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=p&chs=400x250&...

Man, I was toying around with this idea for so long. I hope Google makes this into some kind of an open-source project...

I'm using amcharts. I'm glad Google is doing something free, but part of me would rather support the little guys.

This is very cool. And just too easy.

i kind of like fusion charts. i think rescue time uses them, and ive seen them in alot of places.

Well for use at a high-volume website you would need something else. There's a limit of 50000 charts per day before it stops working and/or you are banned.

You might not want to generate the chart for each page view - you'd probably store/cache the png at your end.

Of course if you need to generate > 50K dynamic charts/day then you're right.

We (RescueTime) do use FusionCharts.... Nice system and a good value. Though each of the SWF files is 40-70k in size, which doesn't thrill me. I've yet to find a charting solution that does. :-(

real clever

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