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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Interface with animation options in Plotly.js","articleBody":"Currently there is no option to access the animation options of Plotly.js from python. This makes it extremely difficult to make proper animations since the default time between frames in 500ms. I have added an extra keyword argument to offline.plot and offline.iplot called animation opts which allows the user to pass a python dictionary through and thus customize animations. \r\n\r\n```\r\nanimation_opts (default=None) -- Custom animation parameters to be passed\r\n    to the function Plotly.animate in Plotly.js in the form str(dict)\r\n    Example:\r\n\r\n\r\nfrom plotly.offline import plot\r\n    figure = {'data': [{'x': [0, 1], 'y': [0, 1]}],\r\n              'layout': {'xaxis': {'range': [0, 5], 'autorange': False},\r\n                         'yaxis': {'range': [0, 5], 'autorange': False},\r\n                         'title': 'Start Title'},\r\n              'frames': [{'data': [{'x': [1, 2], 'y': [1, 2]}]},\r\n                         {'data': [{'x': [1, 4], 'y': [1, 4]}]},\r\n                         {'data': [{'x': [3, 4], 'y': [3, 4]}],\r\n                          'layout': {'title': 'End Title'}}]}\r\n    plot(figure,animation_opts=\"{frame: {duration: 1}}\")\r\n```\r\n \r\n[https://github.com/TakodaS/plotly.py](https://github.com/TakodaS/plotly.py)\r\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/TakodaS","@type":"Person","name":"TakodaS"},"datePublished":"2019-04-05T14:34:47.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":3},"url":"https://github.com/1496/plotly.py/issues/1496"}