Orca install instructions for Google Colaboratory

[flow4u]

I very much like to automate the saving of Plotly images to a Google Drive folder.

As I understand Orca would be the way to go. However, I fail to understand the instructions provided to get Orca installed in a Google Colaboratory notebook.

Could you please update the instructions?

[antoinerg]

I don't have a lot of experience with the Google Colaboratory notebook and getting Orca installed on it may be difficult considering we have limited control over the environment over there.

However, you may be pleased to know that it is now possible to call externally running Orca from plotly.py (see https://github.com/plotly/plotly.py/pull/1850 for details). This way, you can have an Orca instance running elsewhere on the cloud and talk to it from your notebook. This approach should work very well.