How to plot a matplotlib animation in my streamlit app?

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I need to generate an animation in an application that I am building in streamlit.

At first, I generated the animation as follows:

ani = FuncAnimation(fig, animate, frames=range(0,len(x),skipframes), interval=30, blit = True, repeat = False)

HTML(ani.to_jshtml())

components.html(ani.to_jshtml(),height=800)

However, the plot takes a long time to appear (about 20 seconds), perhaps because it is in a heavier format than a simple gif. Locally in pycharm the plot is faster (about 5 seconds) and I used the following command

ani = FuncAnimation(fig, animate, frames=range(0,len(x),skipframes), interval=30, blit = True, repeat = False)

plt.show()

But when I use it on streamlit the plot just doesn’t appear. The code runs, but no graphics, animations or errors appear.

To plot in gif format on streamlit do I need to make some kind of change? Or is there any way to generate the animation in a lighter way than the HTML videos on this site?

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I’m still having a problem with this issue. Are there other ways to plot an animation on streamlit?

Thanks for any help

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You could likely cut down the delay in half by removing the line:

HTML(ani.to_jshtml())

The function ani.to_jshtml() seems to be the bottleneck, and you’re calling it twice in the above snippet.

Here are a few more forum topics about FunctionAnimation.

Best,
Snehan

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Thanks for the answer. I made the change you indicated, but the plotting time remained practically the same. Would you have another idea? I think this HTML format gets a little heavy

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