Google Releases Chart Image Generator
Google Releases Chart Image Generator 12/6/2007 1:11:05 PM Google released a chart generator service they are calling the Google Chart API . Usage is quite straightforward: you link to an image in the form of a parameterized URL, e.g. (line break added) http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht= p3&chd=t:90,49&chs=350x150&chl=Foo|Bar ... and Google returns a PNG graphic containing the chart. For instance, above URL results in the following image: Splitting up the image URL parameters, you can see what it's made up of: cht=p3 the chart type, in this case, a pie chart chd=t:90,49 the chart values, text-encoded, and separated by a comma chs=350x150 the custom chart size, 350x150 pixels chl=Foo|Bar the different labels for the pie chart sections, separated via the pipe character I'm not linking live to Google but caching this image on my server instead, just in case, as Google limits your requests to this API to 50,000 per day. Even with that limit, you ca...