[Solved]-Email Charts - Bar, Area and Pie Charts-Highcharts

Disclaimer: I am founder of Charty

You can try using Charty , which creates interactive charts in seconds and 25+ chart types were supported.

Link: Charty

If you're used to building charts in Javascript, rendering large amounts of these charts to images is quite technically involved. You'll need to choose some render service (e.g. a headless browser or canvas implementation) and do a lot of troubleshooting.

I went through this process and released open-source QuickChart, a web API that takes data and generates static images suitable for email. You can see the project here: https://github.com/typpo/quickchart

It's based on the Chart.js API. Given a chart config like this one:

{
  type: 'bar',
  data: {
    labels: [2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016],
    datasets: [{
      label: 'Data',
      data: [12, 6, 5, 18, 12]
    }]
  }
}

Stuff it into a URL: https://quickchart.io/chart?bkg=white&c={ type: 'bar', data: { labels: [2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016], datasets: [{ label: 'Data', data: [12, 6, 5, 18, 12] }] }}

And it will return a static image:

There is a hosted (also free) version at Quickchart.io, but you can run the web service yourself on Docker or directly from source.

3.5 years late, but 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 we return a Short URL that'll resolve to an image.

There is a free tier, but once you get over a few hundred images per month, we'll ask you to start paying. We've really strived to make the pricing as friendly as possible, though. So it should be a no-brainer if the use case is critical to your business.

It was built on top of http://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!

Disclaimer: I'm Image-Charts founder.

As a indiehacker, I had the same question as you each time I started a new SaaS (rewrite from scratch an image generation backend to then send charts through emails).

That's why I've built a drop-in-replacement for Google Image Charts 👍 and added gif animation on top of it 🚀(chart animations in emails are awesome!!).

It's called Image-charts. No more server-side chart rendering pain, no scaling issues, it's blazing fast, 1 URL = 1 image chart.