Using plotly without online plotly account

Yes, it can be done. The only purpose of having a plotly account is to host the graphs in your plotly account.

Plotly Offline allows you to create graphs offline and save them locally. Instead of saving the graphs to a server, your data and graphs will remain in your local system.

You can work offline without having a plotly account.The plotly version should be 1.9.x series or higher.

import numpy as npfrom plotly import __version__from plotly.offline import download_plotlyjs, init_notebook_mode, plot,iplotprint (__version__) # requires version >= 1.9.0#Always run this the command before at the start of notebookinit_notebook_mode(connected=True)import plotly.graph_objs as gox=np.array([2,5,8,0,2,-8,4,3,1])y=np.array([2,5,8,0,2,-8,4,3,1])data = [go.Scatter(x=x,y=y)]fig = go.Figure(data = data,layout = go.Layout(title='Offline Plotly Testing',width = 800,height = 500,                                           xaxis = dict(title = 'X-axis'), yaxis = dict(title = 'Y-axis')))plot(fig,show_link = False)

Your offline plotly library is setup.Reference : Plotly Offline Tutorial

This the offline graph that is created and you check the there is no online url because the graph is stored in local directory

You can use:

import plotlyplotly.offline.init_notebook_mode(connected=True)

To use Plotly offline.