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Name png exports using plot title #5124
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or maybe plotly.express can santize the plot title and set the plot object filename?
See also #1227
Adding an option here to explicitly specify a name could be done in a minor release. Changing the default to be the plot title rather than
newplot.pngI suppose I can see the rationale for putting it in a major, but there's also a good argument that we don't need to wait for a major. For the vast majority of users this would be an improvement, I have to work pretty hard to imagine a scenario where we'd cause anyone problems by changing this filename. You have a script running that's watching for a file callednewplot.pngto appear in your downloads folder? Unless I'm missing something that seems like an awfully remote possibility.
Currently, when you export a png from a plotly figure, it is saved as
newplot.png. Since most plots (the good ones anyways :) ) have titles specified, it would be great if the file could take its name from the figure title. E.G. if there is a figure with the titleDaily Active Users, it could be saved asDaily Active Users.png.This is particularly helpful when working in a jupyter notebook with multiple figures - at the moment, exporting multiple figures just yields a bunch of files called
newplot.png,newplot (1).png, etc...It might be a quick fix here:
plotly.js/src/snapshot/download.js
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