Google Chart API

April 8, 2008

I just stumbled upon the Google Chart API and it looks really neat. It allows you to dynamically generate a whole variety of different types of charts including:

I haven't taken a look too deeply into the API yet but I will when I have a day or two of free time. Here is a quick preview of what you can generate by making one simple API call:

Sample chart

Check out the Developer's Guide or view the source if you want to see the code.

Jason Smith

Reader Comments

  1. Jason says:
    August 17, 2008 9:55 pm

    I started to create a simple UI to be able to generate these charts. It's not finished yet but if you can check it out here:

    http://www.jasonsmith.ca/googleChartCreator

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