Posted by tobi — 04:47 PM Dec 06
Google made their internal chart library available to the public:
The kicker? It all works using urls. You simply embed an image pointing to their chart engine at http://chart.apis.google.com/chart and pass parameters with your data. This got to be one of the most clever internet API’s yet.
Update: Thanks to reddit for those:
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Soleone 06 Dec 22:20
Nice nice, I think I’ll use it! Indeed a very good idea. Btw. thanks for Typo, I’m using it at the moment, very impressed dude :) I hope things are going well over there, hope to see you sometime again. At least virtually in ET:QW?!
Greets from Germany, Dennis
P.S. I didn’t want to believe you, but you were so right: Guitar Hero rocks. OMG, played too much on the PC with just a keyboard… Btw. if you haven’t seen it already, I definitely recommened to check out South Park S11E13 (and while you’re at it also the Trilogy “Kyle sucks Cartman’s balls”: S11E10-S11E12) – I told you!
Matt Aimonetti 06 Dec 22:53
One thing you should know though, Google restricts the amount of generated graphs to 50k per 24 hours.
Witold Rugowski 07 Dec 05:46
50k per 24h per user – whatever that means. Referer?
Jemaleddin 07 Dec 09:42
That is supremely badass.
Lindsay 07 Dec 14:17
Very Impressive!
Looks like this is what they use in Google Finance, and with a very generous usage limit…
The Great Knower 08 Dec 02:21
your page is screwed up in IE, the best browser on the planet
Alex 08 Dec 08:11
I am looking for this for a long time. Thanks very much.
Matt Aimonetti 17 Dec 17:10
I wrote a Ruby wrapper that you might want to use: http://googlecharts.rubyforge.org/
jim 25 Dec 07:46
good
blj 25 Dec 15:11
Another ruby wrapper too http://code.google.com/p/google-charts-on-rails/
blj 25 Dec 15:15
Sorry I forgot to add that the above is a rails plugin than a gem.
http://code.google.com/p/google-charts-on-rails/
Timon 26 Dec 17:01
Wow thanks! I’m a regular reader and enjoy your work. Keep it up!