Plot.ly Notes

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One-time Setup

Before using plot.ly, follow these steps:

1. Sign up and create a plot.ly account. Notice that you can click on the github logo and use your GitHub credentials to sign up.

2. Create your credentials file:

pip install plotly
python
>>> import plotly
>>> plotly.tools.set_credentials_file(username='YourName', api_key='YourKey')

This will create a ~/.plotly/.credentials file.

3) You will be using plot.ly streams, so create some streaming API tokens here. You should create 3 to start.

4) Manually add the newly created streaming API tokens to ~/.plotly/.credentials :

{
    "username": "YourName",
    "stream_ids": [
        "id1",
        "id2",
        "id3"
    ],
    "api_key": "YourKey",
    "proxy_username": "",
    "proxy_password": ""
}

Python API

Once your streaming API tokens are added, you can use them in your code without a hard-coded reference:

import plotly.plotly as py
import plotly.tools as tls

stream_ids = tls.get_credentials_file()['stream_ids']
# Use the first streaming API token
stream_id = stream_ids[0]
stream = py.Stream(stream_id)
stream.open()