save plotly plot to local file and insert into html

There is a better alternative as of right now, that is to do offline plotting into a div, rather than a full html. This solution does not involve any hacks. If you call: plotly.offline.plot(data, filename='file.html') It creates a file named file.html and opens it up in your web browser. However, if you do: plotly.offline.plot(data, include_plotlyjs=False, output_type='div') the call will return a