Question

I am using Google motion-charts in a web-site developed in python/django. Is there a way to save the rendered view of a google motion-chart as an image (server-side)?

For the more basic chart types – such as scatter diagrams – the command chart.download('scatter-random-marker-sizes.png')
works fine, but I have not found an equivalent for motion charts.

Answer 1

You can’t (they are all flash). but you can save and restore the state of a visualization you create (it’s saved in a string, which you could store locally). See Setting Initial State in the doc:

http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/documentation/gallery/motionchart.html