Plotly: How to export only active legend when exporting plotly graph as png?

Question

I have a plotly graph with more than 80 individual traces:

Now I want to export a png with only a few active traces like this:

But when I export the image with the plotly camera icon it shows the top of the legend and not the legend of the active traces:

My question is, is there a way to tell plotly to export the graph with only the active trace legends visible?

vestland · Accepted Answer · 2021-03-29 12:12:48Z

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This is pretty interesting. If you use the approch described here, and run

fig.write_image("yourfile.png")

...then you'll get the original fig object with all traces included. Even after subsetting the series through the legend.

But if you use the camera icon on the toolbar, then you'll get the edited version as a .png file.

answered Mar 29, 2021 at 11:51

vestland

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Hello, may I ask a follow up question? Is it possible to export only the legend of the active traces? Like, in this example, only NFLX and MSFT?