Name png exports using plot title

[daviddekoning]

Currently, when you export a png from a plotly figure, it is saved as newplot.png. Since most plots (the good ones anyways :) ) have titles specified, it would be great if the file could take its name from the figure title. E.G. if there is a figure with the title Daily Active Users, it could be saved as Daily Active Users.png.

This is particularly helpful when working in a jupyter notebook with multiple figures - at the moment, exporting multiple figures just yields a bunch of files called newplot.png, newplot (1).png, etc...

It might be a quick fix here:

plotly.js/src/snapshot/download.js

Line 53 in b896b19

var filename = opts.filename || gd.fn || 'newplot';

, but the question of escaping / sanitizing the plot title into a filename might need some thought.

[daviddekoning]

or maybe plotly.express can santize the plot title and set the plot object filename?

[nicolaskruchten]

See also #1227

[archmoj]

Perhaps we could add an option to use a desired default name as well as title and subtitle.
cc: @emilykl

[alexcjohnson]

Adding an option here to explicitly specify a name could be done in a minor release. Changing the default to be the plot title rather than newplot.png I suppose I can see the rationale for putting it in a major, but there's also a good argument that we don't need to wait for a major. For the vast majority of users this would be an improvement, I have to work pretty hard to imagine a scenario where we'd cause anyone problems by changing this filename. You have a script running that's watching for a file called newplot.png to appear in your downloads folder? Unless I'm missing something that seems like an awfully remote possibility.