plotly version 4.x

As of version 4, plotly renderers know about Colab, so the following is sufficient to display a figure in both Colab and Jupyter (and other notebooks like Kaggle, Azure, nteract):

import plotly.graph_objects as go
fig = go.Figure( go.Scatter(x=[1,2,3], y=[1,3,2] ) )
fig.show()

plotly version 3.x

Here’s an example showing the use of Plotly in Colab. (Plotly requires custom initialization.)

https://colab.research.google.com/notebook#fileId=14oudHx5e5r7hm1QcbZ24FVHXgVPD0k8f

You need to define this function:

def configure_plotly_browser_state():
  import IPython
  display(IPython.core.display.HTML('''
        <script src="https://stackoverflow.com/static/components/requirejs/require.js"></script>
        <script>
          requirejs.config({
            paths: {
              base: '/static/base',
              plotly: 'https://cdn.plot.ly/plotly-latest.min.js?noext',
            },
          });
        </script>
        '''))

And call it in each offline plotting cell:

configure_plotly_browser_state()