# Share a Bokeh Plot — Publish the HTML, Keep the Interaction
Canonical: https://commareports.com/share-bokeh-plot
Published: 2026-08-23
> Bokeh's save() writes a standalone HTML file that loads BokehJS from its own CDN. Publish it to Comma with INLINE resources and you get a URL where the tools, tooltips and linked brushing still work.
# Share a Bokeh plot
Bokeh has two modes and only one of them travels. A Bokeh _server_ app has a
Python process behind every widget callback. A Bokeh _standalone_ document is
one HTML file that carries its own data and its own JavaScript — it works from
any static host, or from an email attachment, or from nowhere, which is where
most of them end up.
Publishing the standalone file is the whole trick. The catch is which copy of
BokehJS the file asks for.
## Publish it
```python
from bokeh.plotting import figure, save
from bokeh.resources import INLINE
import requests, os
p = figure(title="Latency p95", x_axis_type="datetime")
p.line(df["ts"], df["p95"])
save(p, filename="plot.html", resources=INLINE, title="Latency p95")
requests.post(
"https://commareports.com/api/v1/reports",
headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['COMMA_API_TOKEN']}"},
json={"title": "Latency p95", "html": open("plot.html").read()},
).raise_for_status()
```
`resources=INLINE` is the load-bearing argument. Bokeh's default writes a
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