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Online Chart Maker Using Google’s URL Based API

July 5th, 2009

What do you do when you want to show a visual representation of data on your website? Now you don’t need any heavy libraries to do that.

The Google Chart API is an extremely simple tool that lets you easily create a chart from some data and embed it in a webpage. Charts are created dynamically. You embed the data and formatting parameters in the URL, and Google returns a PNG image of the chart. Many types of chart are supported, and by making the request into an image tag you can simply include the chart in a webpage.

The chart below has been generated on the fly using the following URL:

http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=p3&chd=t:60,40&chs=550×200&chl=This is|a sample chart

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