Sending google visualization chart to email

Disclaimer: I'm Image-Charts founder.

6 years later! Google Image-Charts is deprecated since 2012, and as an indiehacker, I don't want to rewrite from scratch an image generation backend each time I started a new SaaS to just be able to send charts in email...

That's why I've built Image-charts and added gif animation on top of it (chart animations in emails are awesome!!), no more server-side chart rendering pain, no scaling issues, it's blazing fast, 1 URL = 1 image chart.

https://image-charts.com/chart
?cht=bvg
&chd=t:10,15,25,30,40,80
&chs=700x300
&chxt=x,y
&chxl=0:|March '18|April '18|May '18|June '18|July '18|August '18|
&chdl=Visitors (in thousands)
&chf=b0,lg,90,05B142,1,0CE858,0.2
&chxs=1N**K
&chtt=Visitors report
&chma=0,0,10,10
&chl=||||+33% !|x2 !

Google charts could be published in 2 ways:

1. as an Image. Edit Chart-> Publish Chart-> Format : image. An image link is generated. This image link could be either used in any html page or could be embedded in any email.

2. as an Interactive Chart. Edit Chart-> Publish Chart-> Format : Interactive Chart. In this case javascript code has to be inserted. This could only be published in html pages. This could not be attached in email body as most email servers/clients do not process javascript code (AFAIK).

3.5 years later... :)

My team at Ramen recently spun out some internal functionality into a standalone product that does just this: https://ChartURL.com

You can generate charts on the fly using an "Encrypted URL" scheme, or you can send us huge amounts of data and return a Short URL that'll resolve to an image.

It was built on top of C3js.org so there's a ton of flexibility in what you can generate.

These URLs can be used in web apps & mobile apps, but the original intent was email charts so I hope this helps!